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towtox
towtox
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#1towtox, Oct 5, 2010
What is a good book besides expert at the card table royal road and Encyclopedia of
card tricks, It Need To bE uNDer 70 And I was thinking mabey i should get
Revolutionary card techniceany review or ideas

joshrobarts
joshrobarts
#2joshrobarts, Oct 5, 2010
Card Magic of Lepaul is good.

Elite Prestidigitation
Elite Prestidigitation
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#3Elite Prestidigitation, Oct 5, 2010
By Forces Unseen from Stephen Minch

Silver
Silver
#4Silver, Oct 5, 2010 Last edited by a moderator: Oct 5, 2010
Expert Card Technique

Edit: Also, Mastering the Art of Magic. Wonderful presentation book.

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TheatreHead
TheatreHead
#5TheatreHead, Oct 5, 2010
Take a look at Jason England's 1-on-1 on his recommended card magic readings.

RediSpades
RediSpades
#6RediSpades, Oct 5, 2010
Paper Engine by Aaron Fisher

Robert//Livingston
Robert//Livingston
#7Robert//Livingston, Oct 5, 2010
"CARDSHARK" by Darwin Ortiz is a great investment, or "Darwin Ortiz at the Card
Table" are both great card books. The LePaul book is great also.

Card College, Up-Close Card Magic by Harry Lorayne, Totally Out of Control, The Art
of Astonishment.

There are so many great books! If you're into gambling moves, check out the Darwin
Ortiz books. If you're not familiar with a lot of card moves, get Card College 1-5
(I saw 1 - 3 for 70 bucks on the Cafe).

If you want impromptu, can be done with a borrowed shuffled deck; then get Up-Close
Card Magic. Of course, Totally Out of Control is just a great all-around book.

Look at Jason's 1-on-1!

jok3r
jok3r
#8jok3r, Oct 6, 2010
Anything by Ed Marlo or Dai Vernon

LucasCG
LucasCG
#9LucasCG, Oct 6, 2010
<quote>By Forces Unseen from Stephen Minch <\quote>

Second this one. This is one of my favorite books to read when I need to be
inspired or want to learn something fun. Mind you, I dont use any of it (the ideas
from it; card handling wise, yes, but nothing directly from it). Its something
great to learn from.

Card Fictions by Pit Hartling is also pretty sick.

And while it'll take a lot of work... Mnemonica.

TheatreHead
TheatreHead
#10TheatreHead, Oct 6, 2010
LucasCG said: ?
And while it'll take a lot of work... Mnemonica.
I wouldn't call it the "best" card magic book, since it really only covers stack
work.

shinichikudo992000
shinichikudo992000
#11shinichikudo992000, Oct 6, 2010
slydini's books.

AsherF
AsherF
#12AsherF, Oct 6, 2010
The Card Magic of Le Paul is my book of choice for card magic.

opethrules
opethrules
#13opethrules, Oct 6, 2010
Close Up Card magic by Harry Loranye is a fantastic book. Better then anything else
I have

RealityOne
RealityOne
#14RealityOne, Oct 6, 2010
This is like asking what you should have for dinner tonight... everyone is going to
tell you what they like without any analysis of what would be a good choice for
you,

Help us out by telling us how long you've been doing magic, what books and DVDs you
have, what type of effects you like to perform and, if you know, where you want
this book to take you. Are you looking for knuckle busting sleights? Are you
looking for the basics? Are you looking for great effects? Are you looking to
methodically learn the fundamentals? Are you looking to learn a variety of
different techniques? There are different books that will get you to different
places.

towtox
towtox
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#15towtox, Oct 6, 2010
my dvds i have

RealityOne said: ?
This is like asking what you should have for dinner tonight... everyone is going to
tell you what they like without any analysis of what would be a good choice for
you,

Help us out by telling us how long you've been doing magic, what books and DVDs you
have, what type of effects you like to perform and, if you know, where you want
this book to take you. Are you looking for knuckle busting sleights? Are you
looking for the basics? Are you looking for great effects? Are you looking to
methodically learn the fundamentals? Are you looking to learn a variety of
different techniques? There are different books that will get you to different
places.
Ok card magic, 8-9 months i have been doing it books i have;Royal Road,Encyclopedia
Of Card Tricks;Expert at the card table .pdf,Joshua Jays Card Magic, The little big
encyclopedia of magic. DVD; army 52,ninja 1,2, Kard Klub, Gerry Griffin Complete
card magic,Crash Course to slight of hand tricks "elusionist". Oh and a svengali
and a stripped dvd, and i want intermediate to advanced tricks and slight of hand
not to many flourishes but if the trick has a flourish thats cool, not the basics,
and i want it to take me so that i can look to it for inspiration and tips and
stuff, a variation not just passes or stacks, and a variation of different
techniques 30+

RealityOne
RealityOne
#16RealityOne, Oct 6, 2010
towtox said: ?
Ok card magic, 8-9 months i have been doing it books i have;Royal Road,Encyclopedia
Of Card Tricks;Expert at the card table .pdf,Joshua Jays Card Magic, The little big
poencyclopedia of magic. DVD; army 52,ninja 1,2, Kard Klub, Gerry Griffin Complete
card magic,Crash Course to slight of hand tricks. "elusionist". Oh and a svengali
and a stripped dvd, and i want intermediate to advanced tricks and slight of hand
not to many flourishes but if the trick has a flourish thats cool, not the basics,
and i want it to take me so that i can look to it for inspiration and ptips and
stuff, a variation not just passes or stacks, and a variation of different
techniques 30+
My first thought is that you need to spend more time mastering the material you
have. It's a lot of material to cover in 9 months. Learn it, master it, practice it
and perform it before moving on.

If you liked Royal Road, Erdnase, and Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, get Expert Card
Technique, Card Control and the Card Magic of LePaul. Total around $35.

If you found those books difficult, get Card College. The teaching is detailed and
gives you the history and variations for the sleights well as effects using the
sleights. Get at least the first two volumes - they were meant to be a complete
course. If you can get the first 3 volumes for $70 (which is the retail price of
the first two volumes) that is a great deal.

Art of Astonishment ($35) has great effects and the handling isn't too difficult.
The Paper Engine also is a great book with some great effects. The Paper Engine
($25) has more advanced sleights and some routines require knowledge of sleights
that aren't taught in the book. Aaron teaches some less dificult variations of the
effects on his DVDs.

Don't get By Forces Unseen. Its too advanced for where you are and is too flourishy
for where you seem to want to go.

I think the option that would be best for you is Card College - but only if you
work through it chapter by chapter. I suspect that if you get ECT, LePaul and Card
Control, they will suffer the same fate as the books you have - looked at but not
studied (if I'm wrong about that then I apologize - its hard to do cold reading on
a forum).

I think you would find AoA most interesting, but that you need to spend more time
mastering the fundamentals first. Without at least a year's experience performing,
you will not be able to pull off a lot of the effects in that book.

towtox
towtox
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#17towtox, Oct 6, 2010
i study the encyclopedia and royal road the other i don't but i do stud them i want
a more advanced kind of book i pracice lots usually an hour to 2 a day yes thar is
actually a lot because im 14 and have school and then i read for half and hour a
night on either royal road or encyclopedia! i started magic in febuary

RealityOne
RealityOne
#18RealityOne, Oct 6, 2010
Have you found it easy to learn from RRTCM? If so, then get Card Magic of LePaul,
Expert Card Technique and Card Control. If you find it hard, then get the first two
volumes of Card College. After either of those sets, then get AoA and/or Paper
Engine.

Note, I don't have any Harry Lorraine books, so I can't speak to them.

ChrisWiens
ChrisWiens
#19ChrisWiens, Oct 7, 2010 Last edited by a moderator: Oct 7, 2010
opethrules said: ?
Close Up Card magic by Harry Loranye is a fantastic book. Better then anything else
I have
Its a bit overrated in my opinion by todays standards. Its not a bad book (a few
gems in it), but Mr.Lorayne himself stated that its not his best book and his
later books are much better. I agree (I own Classic Collection 1 + 2).

Im with RealityOne. I think Card College is the single most effective collection
of books in card magic Ive ever read (and I have read a few,..most of the books
mentioned in the thread). I found out that the sleights (the description (note: the
DESCRIPTION only...not the effectiveness of the sleigth or variation) of
many/most?! sleights are even better and more indepth than in the original source)
and the teaching is superior to anything Ive came across in terms of magic books.

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