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Peo Olsson Inner circle Stockholm, Sweden 3260 Posts |
Pre-Order $18.00 from Vanishing Inc.
Yes! It's confirmed. Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards, our cofounder's mass-market paperback, is almost ready for release. The book is an anything, everything celebration of playing cards: tricks, shuffles, scams, and hustles, as well as the history, trivia, lore, and art of playing cards. Joshua Jay tells us, "This is the book I always wanted to write. Traveling the world, I have collected tips, tricks, and stunts with a pack of cards that will appeal to anyone who loves cards. This is not a magic book, strictly speaking, but instead an exploration into playing cards, their history, cheating apparatus, and more." Joshua will tour 18 cities in support of the book's release, including Minneapolis, Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and others. More tour announcements to come. Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards costs just 18 dollars and will be available in stores nationwide on June 14th. There are FIVE REASONS TO ORDER HERE: 1. You will get it as soon as it comes out, delivered to your door. 2. This is the ONLY place you will receive your book autographed by Joshua Jay. 3. Every order will come with a free gift of Joshua Jay's e-lecture notes (15 dollar value). 4. Every book will come with a DVD performing and explaining many of the flourishes, stunts, scams, and tricks explored in the book. 5. You will be directly supporting the artist, Joshua Jay, by buying direct and not through a large chain. Joshua will also make several national television appearances in support of The Amazing Book of Cards. Cheer him on for his next appearance, on June 14th on the TODAY show.
Pictured to the left my hero and me during FISM 2006 in Stockholm.
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NickyEvil New user Hong Kong SAR 37 Posts |
What kind of trick in there?
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Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts |
I ordered it yetserday as I'm a big Josh Jay fan!
Peo, thanks for copying and pasting the ad for everyone. Chris
"Of all words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are, "It might have been" ..........John Greenleaf Whittier |
Peo Olsson Inner circle Stockholm, Sweden 3260 Posts |
Sure thing Chris.
Pictured to the left my hero and me during FISM 2006 in Stockholm.
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TCG438 New user 95 Posts |
Talked with Josh about the book Monday night at the Magic Castle
It sounds great! |
Review King Eternal Order 14446 Posts |
Mine arrievd and as expected, I think it's great. It's worth far more than the small cost without a DVD. Including a DVD in makes this an unbelievable value.
Chris
"Of all words of tongue and pen,
the saddest are, "It might have been" ..........John Greenleaf Whittier |
lumberjohn Special user Memphis, TN 626 Posts |
I agree. This is a tremendous value. The book is exceedingly well produced, just like "Magic, the Complete Course." It contains a lot of great material for people interested in cards. While much of this will already be known to experienced card magicians, I believe the book contains enough material that everyone should find a few new nuggets they can use. When you add in the DVD, you are getting an exceptional deal.
John |
Cameron Francis V.I.P. 7025 Posts |
Very nice book! Just got it in the mail and am looking forward to digging in!
MOMENT'S NOTICE LIVE 3 - Six impromptu card tricks! Out now! http://cameronfrancismagic.com/moments-notice-live-3.html
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magicphill Veteran user 359 Posts |
Well produced book and the companion dvd is of high quality too
One thing tho the book mentions that there are an additional two bonus effects included on the DVD but I can't seem to find them. Are they hidden easter eggs ? |
EndersGame Inner circle Reviewer EndersGame 2196 Posts |
Any more thoughts on this book/DVD, now that it's been out for a while? I already own Joshua Jay's Complete Course in Magic, which has terrific content and is excellent value. I don't own Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards, but from what I've seen online so far, it seems to be more about card handling than card tricks:
a) The first half of the book seems to includes a lot of basic material like doing spreads, fans, cuts, and shuffles (e.g. riffle, hindu), all of which is suitable for real beginners, but most intermediate amateurs will already be familiar with most of this. Only 9 tricks are included in the "Tricks" chapter, and some of them seem to be quite elementary and common (e.g. 10-20 force, one ahead principle), unlike the quality ones in Complete Course (e.g. Out of this World, Invisible Deck, Ashes on the Arm, Do As I Do). b) The second half the book looks more interesting to me, with the hussles and stunts, but it's hard to justify picking it up just for those 80 pages. The Amazing Book of Cards is also considerably shorter than the Complete Course in Magic (208 pages vs 278 pages), and the accompanying DVD is shorter too (106 minutes vs 132 minutes). Overall my impression is that the more well rounded content of Magic The Complete Course is going to be more useful to both beginners and amateurs, whereas the Amazing Book of Cards has a more limited audience in being suitable for real beginners only. It would be excellent for people starting out with cards, although it seems a pity that it doesn't include a few more better card tricks (unless these are included in the sections dealing with things like the Hindu Shuffle?). Not only would that have made it more useful to beginners, by giving them some good material to progress with, but would also have made the book of more interest to amateurs like me as well, thus potentially increasing the size of the market of those who would be interested in a book like this. Please tell me I'm wrong, or are my impressions fairly accurate? |
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