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A complete text on how to give brief cold readings to anyone and astound them with your accuracy.

THE CLASSIC BOOK ON COLD READING.

When the first edition of Quick and Effective Cold Reading was published, Bascom Jones, editor of Magick, wrote that it was "one of the all-time GREAT publications in mentalism." If Bascom was here today, he would not be surprised to discover this book is now considered the classic book on the subject.

Cold reading is the art of giving a reading to someone without knowing anything about him or her beforehand. Quick and Effective Cold Reading teaches you how to give short, factual, informative and satisfying readings to people you know nothing about, and may not have met before. The ability to give a satisfying reading is a useful, arguably essential, skill for anyone involved in the psychic entertainment field.

For many years, copies of this book were hard to obtain, as distribution was deliberately restricted to people who were serious about learning how to become good cold readers. This new, updated edition is especially produced to commemorate this book's twenty-fifth anniversary.

Pages - 111 - Softcover - Perfect bound

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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 13th, 2022
I first got this book about 15 years ago. The difference in this book it that cold reading lines are applied using an actual system-palmistry. Later on, you can apply it to other things. I studied this book to the letter and read palms at two Halloween parties and a third party a few years later. I was the hit of the party and people were talking about it months after! It will take study and I even drew artistic renderings of different hands with different lines as in the book on pieces of paper. I could pull out a picture of a hand at random and practice reading(I drew some with a connected life and fate line and some without etc.) it so I could get all the lines correct and practice whenever I wanted. No one ever disagreed with what I said. This is THE book to start learning to cold read people and it is connected with a system(palmistry in this case).
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on June 30th, 2011
This is a good place to start with readings. It is more about doing palm readings than what most magicians would think of as "cold reading". That's not a bad thing though. It will take some study, but you can at least memorize enough to start doing simple readings for people you know within a few days.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on August 13th, 2022

I first got this book about 15 years ago. The difference in this book it that cold reading lines are applied using an actual system-palmistry. Later on, you can apply it to other things. I studied this book to the letter and read palms at two Halloween parties and a third party a few years later. I was the hit of the party and people were talking about it months after! It will take study and I even drew artistic renderings of different hands with different lines as in the book on pieces of paper. I could pull out a picture of a hand at random and practice reading(I drew some with a connected life and fate line and some without etc.) it so I could get all the lines correct and practice whenever I wanted. No one ever disagreed with what I said.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 8th, 2019
This is the best book for the beginning cold reader. Cold reading lines are tied to the basic meanings of the actual palm reading lines(heart line, life line etc.). I did some palm readings at parties and it went over well. My biggest fear was if someone did not agree with what I said their lines mean't. No one ever disagreed with me----ever! Just learn the lines and memorize the script and you are good to go. You can always later add certain other cold reading lines of your own to it, or use ones from other sources. This book makes it very easy to learn a basic cold reading! If you don't want to or don't care to be the best palm reader---then just don't think about getting this great source!!
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 29th, 2015
I was hoping to get a bunch of bartum statements. it seems like any other palm reading book
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