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The Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue (book) This book will walk you through every sleight of hand a beginning card magician could hope to learn. You'll find plenty of helpful illustrations and thorough, informative text. Highly Recommended!!!
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Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings? Mastering a few card tricks will allow you to do all that and more. With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks.
Manufacturer SaysPaperbound, 310 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages, 121 illustrations. Customers who bought this also bought
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Needs better tricks
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on September 7th, 2012
This book is brilliant! and although the title says it needs better tricks it does have some
brilliant ones but it would be nice if they had a few more modern tricks many of them are a little
out dated with people like Blaine and Dynamo people expect you to be able to put a house in a
bottle.
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The cover was different on mine, but this is proboly the same stuff(it has the same title). Its
great.
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Get this and Paul Wilson's companion DVD's and you have all you need to get started not only in card
magic, but magic period! This is not just a 'card' book, but a great book on the general magic
skills of misdirection, presentation, arranging a routine, and just about everything a new magician
needs to know. A must, must have for everyone.
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Good value but hard to follow
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on April 7th, 2010
The Royal Road to Card Magic is considered by many the place to start your card magic education.
Personally, I like the book. It's cheap, there is a lot of material in the book and therefore a
great value. However I don't think it is the best place for beginners to begin. The text is
difficult to read and understand. It is meticulously written but hard to follow the description of
finger placements. I would recommend a good instructional DVD and then supplement your learning
with this inexpensive book.
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Great for Beginners
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on April 6th, 2010
If you are first starting out with magic and are looking for a good book to read, pick this one up.
This will teach you everything you need to know to get your career started. You'll probably be
tempted to buy more complicated book but I recommend you start with this. Having said this, this
book isn't just for beginners. There is a lot of really good stuff in this book that you will
continue to use. Mostly it is just techniques but it's always good to pull out old routines that you
haven't done in a while. You'll be surprised on how good this book actually is.
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Official B_Magic review!
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on April 6th, 2010
Hi! This is your official PenguinMagic reviewer, B_Magic.
A MUST-BUY FOR EVERY CARD WORKER, BEGINNING, INTERMEDIATE OR ADVANCED. ADD TO CART AND DO IT NOW! I MEAN IT, RIGHT NOW!!!! This book I feel is darn-near essential for any aspiring card worker. It's a staple and would be almost blasphemous NOT to have this in your library as a card magician. The book is fantastic. It's a cumulatively-designed book, so you learn basics and compound on that. The sleights that you learn are staples in the magic field and things every card worker should learn, and the way the book is designed is genius. You learn effects using the sleights you just learned in each chapter. Many of the effects are quite good, in fact, many of them I still do (with various tweaks and additions added over the years). You absolutely must get this book. IT'S A MORAL IMPERATIVE! LOL B_Magic Did this review help you?
Personally, I felt that this book lacked something and I don't really recommend it for a beginner.
Here's why. When we get into Magic, most experienced Magicians point us to one place. The classics.
Some of which don't even need to be classics. I noticed with this book that it was written with a
very seasoned attitude in mind. What I mean is it's hard sometimes to break free from that state of
mind. It's not exactly the case here, but it DID get in the way
Like many other introductory books on Magic, this has it's mutual elements. THe double lift section, the pass section, the manipulation, tricks etc. I did learn a lot from this, I'll be completely honest with you, but I feel there are more resourceful places to begin win. If you are a beginner in general, and don't know a load of Magic tricks yet, I would suggest you go check out Joshua Jay or Mark Wilson's books on Magic. They are direct and have a lot of good stuff, a lot of which is in here too. There are so many classic tricks, that you shouldn't be forced to start in one solid place. Start with something that has a wide variety of different tricks in it. Then if you like Card Magic, go for this. Did this review help you?
As I have said in other reviews, people often discount things like this because they are old or
apply to beginners. I can honestly say that this is not the case here. This book has SO much
material in it, 11 dollars is literally PENNIES per trick.
That should convince you to buy it right now. If you are still not convinced, read the other reviews on here! I know, me personally (and I will probably get beaten by a magician for saying this) did card magic for a good 6 years before ever picking up this book. I finally got it and it helped my card technique DRASTICALLY. I learned things in this book that they don't tell you online, in other books or in DVDs. Jean Hugard and Fredrick Braue are truly amazing and had a gift for coming up with good, practical effects and writing them down in an easy to understand format. Let me just say that if you don't have this book, I recommend it more than ANY other card item in the shop. Did this review help you?
The Bible of Card Magic?
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on April 4th, 2010
Many people will argue and, if it were possible, I'm sure many people would send some great hate
mail for me writing this but I am convinced that this is the Bible of card magic.
I can say that, along with the great DVD sets you can buy to accompany this book, I have read this from cover to cover at least 4 times. There is great methodology to be found within it's pages. It begins the student at the most basic of beginnings - the overhand shuffle, something that most people know and the progression is a steady one. The student progresses up the mountain of flourishes, glimpses, palming, false shuffles, double lifts and so forth. Even making a stop to rest and learn the classic pass. I write about this book with fondness because it has a special place in my library. If anyone ever asks me, "how do I get into magic?" If I find out they are genuinely interested (and not just wanting to spoil my tricks) I will always point them to this book. If you haven't got it - buy it. Did this review help you?
Classic Book on Card Magic
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on April 3rd, 2010
If you're a card magician who hasn't read this book, you're not a card magician. Every magician
needs to read this book cover to cover, because it has many, many of the most basic sleights in card
magic as well as routines and card tricks that are still relevant even today. The book itself is
very easy to read and the descriptions are easy to understand. A lot easier to read than Erdnase,
and a great thing to read if you're just starting out! Even if you're not though, you can still
learn a lot from this book. There's great material in here for every level of magician. One routine
from this book was shown to me by a professional magician that fooled the socks off me. Then he told
me it was in this book. Just goes to show how much pure gold is in here!
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