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by **cc100** » Jan 14th, '11, 17:48

Hi,

I'm thinking of getting either royal road to card magic or mark wilson's complete course in magic to get stated out. Is there a lot of stuff in card magic that is covered in royal road and not in mark wilson's?

by **phillipnorthfield** » Jan 14th, '11, 17:52

Royal Road is entirely Card material, whereas Mark Wilson's covers nearly every topic.

If you are just starting out, I would reccomend Mark Wilson, so you can get a feeling as to what type of magic suits you. Then you can specialize in wherever your interest's lie.

Regards,

Phil

by **Lady of Mystery** » Jan 14th, '11, 17:57

I'd go for Mark Wilson, it covers a wider range of magic and the card basics are in my opinion explained better than in Royal Road, which can be quite confusing at times.

by **aporia** » Jan 14th, '11, 18:30

Just get both. £16 the pair from Amazon with free delivery.

If you don't want to spend money, you are in the wrong game!

Mind you, just spotted this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Publicati ... 099&sr=8-7 for £10. This appears to be Tarbell Course, the Expert at the Card Table, the Linking Ring, Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic [edit: not sure who Books LLC are, what I have read about them doesn't fill me with confidence]

by **cc100** » Jan 14th, '11, 20:19

ok, cheers guys.

by **kartoffelngeist** » Jan 14th, '11, 20:33

The card section in Mark Wilson's book is more than enough to be getting on with. The rest of it is great too.

Books LLC also seem to do other books like that... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mentalism-Readi ... 50&sr=1-41

Seem a bit strange...

by **Mandrake** » Jan 14th, '11, 21:42

aporia wrote:just spotted this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Publicati ... 099&sr=8-7 for £10. This appears to be Tarbell Course, the Expert at the Card Table, the Linking Ring, Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic [edit: not sure who Books LLC are, what I have read about them doesn't fill me with confidence]

Amazon Product details
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Unknown (25 May 2010)
Language English

40 pages for all that lot?

by **Erwin** » Jan 14th, '11, 22:02

This may be of interest:

http://guaka.org/2010/11/25/books-llc-scam-amazon

by **Mandrake** » Jan 14th, '11, 22:28

Thanks, certainly one to avoid.

by **TonyB** » Jan 15th, '11, 02:46

Go for Mark Wilson. Get the Royal Road in six months time.

by **magicofthemind** » Jan 15th, '11, 10:52

Lady of Mystery wrote:I'd go for Mark Wilson, it covers a wider range of magic and the card basics are in my opinion explained better than in Royal Road, which can be quite confusing at times.

Seconded. Royal Road is pretty indigestible, and Mark Wilson has clear step-by-step diagrams.

Barry

by **Alec Burns** » Jan 15th, '11, 11:03

Go for the complete course! It covers just about every first rung of every magical ladder!

Alec

by **heronjester** » Jan 15th, '11, 11:23

TonyB wrote:Go for Mark Wilson. Get the Royal Road in six months time.

I'll agree with Tony (and everyone else) go for Mark Wilson's first.

by **tfeher1** » Feb 4th, '11, 04:05

I would go with Mark's book first. it gives you a taste of everything. Personally I feel it's one of the best first books to get when starting out.
After you study that book, then you go buy others.
Good Luck
Tim

by **SpareJoker** » Feb 4th, '11, 10:36

Royal Road is superceded completely by Card College (my opinion of course, let's not debate this here and derail the thread).

If you do choose the Card College route, I strongly reccomend only buying 1 volume at a time (starting with Vol. 1, naturally)

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