On Jun 9, 2020, Joe Roberts wrote:

With book tests it's always been considered a weakness if you have to ask for a page number because the spectator could simply assume you memorized it. Countless book tests have been designed to avoid having to ask for a page number, even if the book has 100s of pages.

With only 20-something different women, the suspicion of memorization being the answer would be even more likely. That doesn't seem like such a "big assumption" to me. My concern is that it's about the most basic assumption the spectator could make. Presentation is the heart of bizarre magic but to really engross people in a bizarre presentation I feel like you need to eliminate all the prosaic explanations for what is happening.

I love the idea of the book but I just wanted to clarify what the process was because it sounded like they read the names on one page and you're able to tell them details of the woman on the other side of the page. And if that's what it is, I personally don't know how I would steer them away from what seems to be the obvious explanation, so it's not for me. But I'm sure others won't have that hang-up and I hope they enjoy the product.

On Jun 9, 2020, GReed3649 wrote:
Having read through this thread, it seems the book itself has gotten some mixed reviews. I love the idea that this is a turn of the century reproduction from New Orleans' seedy past, BUT can it or can't it pass for the genuine article? That seems to be a bigger question than the possibly methodology.