Magic for Dummies

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Perform great magic at the drop of a hat with these tips and tricks -- literally -- from Pogue and 35 of America's top professional magicians. With a little practice (and some clever misdirection, which lays at the heart of all magic tricks), you'll bewitch everyone around you with card tricks, coin tricks, disappearing acts, and even mind-reading! Magic For Dummies features more than 90 deceptions, illusions, and sleights of hand for all occasions, along with photos, patter, and presentation tips for every trick in the book. You'll be pulling rabbits out of your hat for years to come with these great magic tricks...easy enough to learn, and enchanting enough to keep folks baffled and bewildered.

What Customers Say About Magic for Dummies:

So the readers are entertained while being taught (almost covertly) an excellent attitude toward the experience of performing and first rate material. It has always been a hit for me.The secret is that David Pogue puts up front what most authors on this subject leave out: The Fun.and he keeps it fun all the way through. I believe this to be the best introduction to magic available today. I have given about a dozen as gifts to the children of clients and friends for whom I have performed.

It is money well spent. This is an excellent book for beginners in magic. It has good solid advice and some very nice tricks in it that work well.

A decent addition to the library. A good thought starter and a nice insight into the simple mechanics of simple tricks. Magic for Dummies is very thorough, giving runthroughs of several different magic tricks. The patter, as written in the book, is exceedingly lame, but c'mon.What kind of showman would you be if you couldn't take a main idea and make it your own by writing better patter, right.

Their jaws dropped open, and they asked, "How DID you do that." (NEVER tell.).This book goes beyond just doing a trick, it goes into the psychology and illusion involved, which seems to make a great difference. And it's been fabulous fun.Each time I learned a trick from this book, I thought, "Will someone really believe this trick, it's so simple." But guess what. Have a ball. This book has some amazing stuff. Although I am an introvert, and certainly not one to be in the spotlight, I have really amazed some friends and relatives with some of the tricks (illusions) I have learned from this book.

I needed the book for helpful hints. It was helpful. I am writing a script that requires a small amout of simple magic.