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crossroader
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Hi,
I've a recent interest in card magic.My
dexterity with cards is limited(to say the
least)so what books do you suggest?
I've thinking about "Semi-automatic.."by Steve Beam and "Ahead of the pack"by Jones.
Are they good choises?
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Mark Wilson's Course in Magic - Mark Wilson
Card Magic of Nick Trost - Nick Trost
Self-Working Card Tricks - Karl Fulves
Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 1,2,3,4 - Steve Beam


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aer you physicaly crippled in some way? If you arn't, then I would go for other books that teach sleights. You can't be a magician by doing self-working card tricks, the effects are ten times better with other tricks.
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that's not always true, have you ever seen jcs super closer? one of the best self-working tricks of all time! my opinion tho. Smile
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There are good self-working card tricks, I'm just saying that you can't do JUST self-working tricks. Think about what tricks that you perform most, how many are self-working? probably not many.
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Bannons "Play it straight Triumph" is a wonderful effect that is nearly self working.

You might also want to check out "Scarne on Card Tricks". Some very fine "non sleight" effects to be found therein.
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Peter Duffie's Effortless Card Magic has some great tricks that have minimal sleight of hand requirements.
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Some stack work is really good, but that
takes a bit of brain power.
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CHRISTOS DEDES,
Is it that you can not or do not want to spend the time necessary to learn them?
If that is not a concern and you have problems learning the very basic sleights(double lift,false shuffle/cuts/counts),
then (IMO) these are the two best self working books:
Self-Working Card Tricks - Karl Fulves
Scarne on Card Tricks

Try them & see what reaction you get..
You will find out that eventually you WILL
make yourself learn a sleight or two..
Good luck!
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If you like videos, Mike Maxwell has a self working card trick video out, which I hear has some great effects on it. Smile
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In addition to Scarne on Card Tricks, also try Hugard's Encyclopedia of Card Tricks.
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Hi Christos,

I have "Ahead of the Pack". Some of the tricks in the book aren't the kind of thing I like. Others are. The tricks that I do like are a bit probably not beginner's material.

It's a pretty good book, but for a starting book on cards, you are probably best looking somewhere else for now.

(If, at some stage in the future, you do get "Ahead of the pack", then I have a handling for the "Letters for Steward" trick which I think is a bit more foolproof for beginners - PM for more info if you get the book).

Cheers,

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Check out Imbuzzablities (sp?) it's really good! Plus Bob Hummers Collected Secrets, it's so lateral it's coming from a different planet.

Only a couple of things in the Bob Hummer book require some knuckle busting. The majority is all subtlety and insane thinking.

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Add some flourishes into your routine which will make you look like a professional.

Go for Encyclopedia of flourish by flourishman.

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Don't forget Fulves "Self Working Card Tricks" , "More Self Working Card Tricks" , "Royal Road To Card Magic ", "Encyclopedia of Card Magic " all done by Dover By the time you finish these you would be ready for "Card College " Lots of luck, it"s a long road but a lot of fun.
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How about Terry LaGerould's Pasteboard Presentations? (he also had a little book of a dozen well-structured classic self-workers 'A Magical Baker's Dozen'?). A lot of it is very easy but looks very good.. Also Phil Goldstein's new one - RedivideR. The book is full of self-working miracles - only one or two of the tricks use any sleights at all.
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On 2003-03-09 06:36, KC wrote:
Peter Duffie's Effortless Card Magic has some great tricks that have minimal sleight of hand requirements.



I heartily recommend this choice, an underated book which personally I think is one of the best card books of the past decade. Several of the effects from this book have been marketed.

The Fulves books are good value for money and contain some gems but are not comparable to the above.

Regarding "Redivider", whilst some clever ideas based on one particular theme, no-one would routine more than one of these routines together because of the similarity in procedure for each. They may be easy, but I would assume the original poster wanted a variety of easy tricks he could do back to back. A recommended title, but not in this instance.

Of course, as someone suggested, you could go the video route.. and be doing what everyone else is doing...

Paul.
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Paul, Regarding RedivideR being a good choice - I agree you couldn't do more than one of these for any one audience, BUT - You wouldn't spend $18 to add one great trick to your repertoire? You could add 3 and put each of them into different sets. I stand by this choice. Beginners try to learn too many tricks too fast anyway. Learn a few very well.
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re;
"BUT - You wouldn't spend $18 to add one great trick to your repertoire?"

Okay, you got me...unless, I could spend fractionally more and add a number of great tricks to my repertoire without thinking about different sets. lol.

Beginners have enough trouble getting one good set together, never mind several Smile

Granted, with Redivider one can quickly learn a few effects with little variant in method, therefore, overall less to learn except for the presentation. Often the most overlooked, and difficult part. Smile

I'm not stopping you standing by your choice, I'm certainly standing by mine Smile

Paul.
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I would also recommend Duffie's Effortless Card Magic. This is an excellent book and despite a number of well-deserved reviews, it seems to have slipped by many people. You will not be disappointed.
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