tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614376202473604721.post5518039723739026600..comments2023-10-21T01:39:23.816-07:00Comments on The Weekly Magic Failure: Three RealitiesRolandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17576878560719571873noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614376202473604721.post-33201872343162401432013-01-01T04:20:49.503-08:002013-01-01T04:20:49.503-08:00The small one is missing a lot actually but still ...The small one is missing a lot actually but still a good start. My first book I recall having was the klutz book of magic. Also has some good stuff inside.Bizzaro.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14091146022808949244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614376202473604721.post-57498831792653094272012-12-31T03:27:00.196-08:002012-12-31T03:27:00.196-08:00My very first magic book was The Magic Handbook, b...My very first magic book was The Magic Handbook, by Peter Eldin; I think I must have been seven or eight at the time. The least I can say is that for a book aimed at kids, it sure teaches a lot of relatively advanced stuff! Just a few off the top of my head: HPC pass, three or four different palms, Chink-a-Chink, French drop, coins through table, cards across, cups and balls, cut and restored rope, double lift, stacks, a couple of forces, out of this world, memory systems, the one-ahead principle, basic misdirection... I still use much of its material to this day.<br />And yes, it does teach you to believe - or act like you believe - in the reality you're trying to convey to your audience. Many beginners' books teach you what you have to do with your hands to vanish a coin; this one taught me what I had to do with my eyes - which is, of course, so much more crucial.<br /><br />Of course, when I got it a quarter-century ago, I foolishly dismissed most of its best techniques as crazy and impractical ("releasing a coin from one hand while pretending to drop it from the other hand? Yeah right, as if anyone were gonna' buy that!"). So I started by doing its easiest self-workers such as the jumping rubber-band and Sim-Sala-Bim, working my way up the difficulty ladder as I grew older and more experienced.<br /><br />As a matter of fact my "two in hand, one in pocket" routine - still possibly my favourite coin trick to this day - was first learnt in that book (although I've tweaked it a lot over the years, particularly regarding the final load).<br /><br />If it's still in print I would definitely recommend it to beginners - provided we're talking about *serious* beginners. Some of the tricks in it (OOTW comes to mind) are too valuable to be off-handedly exposed to your average, briefly-interested-in-magic-after-watching-Criss-Angel-do-something-awesome youngster.石榮狼https://www.blogger.com/profile/04773115177273203494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614376202473604721.post-42553770442898546972012-12-30T19:48:28.039-08:002012-12-30T19:48:28.039-08:00Definitely. Besides, Roland, I got the Ball and Va...Definitely. Besides, Roland, I got the Ball and Vase at the very beginning too!the Minutemenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13133923666580524435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614376202473604721.post-28909960507468273072012-12-29T09:51:18.166-08:002012-12-29T09:51:18.166-08:00Aye, I started with his Cyclopedia of Magic (the s...Aye, I started with his Cyclopedia of Magic (the small fat one). Pretty sure it's almost the same text, just cut down a bit. It was a damn good introduction. Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03776236761860369272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614376202473604721.post-91635848795273230082012-12-29T01:55:48.716-08:002012-12-29T01:55:48.716-08:00Mark Wilson Course of Magic (the big phone book si...Mark Wilson Course of Magic (the big phone book sized one)Bizzaro.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14091146022808949244noreply@blogger.com