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I just started magic last week, and have been online day and night looking at card and coin tricks. But what I would like to know is which books and gimmicks would be good for me to buy. I kno COin Magic by JB BOBO is one, any other ones that have something to do with cards>?

Born to perform-DVD-Oz Pearlman
Fundamentals are all there with excellent vide instruction

Wingman,

I can't fault the recommendation to Born To Perform by Oz.

However, if you are very new to magic you need to learn how to handle and manipulate cards, and has been said before, something like Royal Road will help you get there.

To any beginner, please don't try to run before you can walk, learn the basics, forget the complicated tricks or sleights.

The number of times beginners have come on here and said that someone has seen what they do or have challenged what they have done !! Please learn the basics, don't try to jump the gun. Get competent, and then get confident. The only way you are caught out is because you aren't good enough, and I'm not meaning you Wingman, its addressed to all beginners. Practice.

NOTHING IN THIS GAME COMES WITHOUT PRACTICE, and there isn't a member here who will say different.

I have Bobo and wouldn't recommend it to any beginner, its a swine to learn from But then again, I've always found it damn hard learning from books

Tenko - Born To Perform is very good for new beginners too . It really starts off with the basics, dealer and mechanics grip, and only later moves on to more advanced stuff...

Kati

Born To Perform is a must buy for you. Very, very good quality

I wouldn't say Bobo's was hard to learn from. It's not the sort of thing where you need to know it all though. I find just picking out the particular slights that work best for me works great. Plus it's all in handy chapters so you can find the stuff easy enough.

When I started with coinmagic (6 months ago now) I started with Bobo's and I think it's pretty good to start learning from, if you can find a few pictures on how to hold the coin, because the drawings isn't that great...but later on (when u have got the basic sleights down) it's a really good book.

A bit of Advice for someone getting into card Magic is Buy some good quality cards. Bikes , Tally-Hos whatever pattern you like most. They only cost a couple of quid and should last you a while.
Nearly all online magic shops sell them and i've also bought some from ASDA stores Before.

I am also fairly new to magic and have just purchased Bobo's book. It's early days yet but I can recommend it even for a beginner, the main thing is practice.

I would also reccomend Self working coin magic by Karl Fulves (curerntly £3.98 on Amazon). I have just finished reading this the whole way through and mastered a couple of the tricks ( I will be posting a review fairly soon) I wouldn't call all of the tricks self working as there are some simple sleights required. Having said that they are easy to master for a begginer. I think there would be enough in this book to keep you going for a while before moving on to Bobo's book.

I did buy a book a on card magic called easy card tricks, which contains about 50 tricks and explanations of how to do some basic sleights. It seems OK to a begginer but I couldn't compare it to the other books suggested. ( I bought it before I found this site and with hindsight I would probably buy the Royal road to card magic due to the number of people who reccomend it on here).

Hope this helps and good luck from another budding magician!!

Both Mark Wilson's "Complete Course in Magic" and "The Magic Book," by Harry Lorayne will give you a good start in the basics of card magic. And, both of those books delve into many other facets of magic, like coins, silks, impromptu, mentalism and many others. I highly recommend getting a copy of either of them, but the Wilson book is much more affordable than the Lorayne book.

Mike.

I agree.

Mark Wilson's "Complete Course in Magic" is a great book, and you do get ... a LOT of book for your money !

It covers so much, with plenty of illustrations, and the routines and explanations are very effective.

It's worth trawling through, and picking out what best suits you ( sir ! ).

Well worth the dosh.

I am wondering if i should buy some decks, such as the svengali, brainwave, stripper bicycle decks. Any reccomendations?

You could buy a svengali deck or even a mental photography deck. Both can be picked up cheaply. Cheek to cheek is a self-working deck trick that is quite fun. Mental photography would give you practise in handling a certain something

thx

handling a what?...any tricks or decks that people recommend a beginner should get?