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Summary: Extraordinary Compendium of Learning and Delight!
Review: I have been studying sleight-of-hand magic and other departments of the art for thirty-five years. Additionally, in my own professional life, I have written 25 textbooks in another field. --With these credentials, I simply must step forward to praise Mark Wilson's "Complete Course in Magic," for the masterful instruction and the highest quality presentation.First of all, this book is a coffee-table book-size, produced with quality binding, excellent paper selection, and the most captivatingly perfect photographic cover treatment possible! This all promises quality content; this inspires pride in possessing such a weighty and elegant work. I can say, unequivocally, that this book is easy-to-understand, eminently practical, and immediately enjoyable; the learning factor --even for someone quite skilled-- is off the charts! Drawings everywhere! Little tips of patter and misdirection accompany all the sleights, and even self-working tricks are turned into miracles. I have never, in all my reading over almost half-a century, encountered a more beautiful presentation, a more lucid instruction in magic. **If just one of these tricks ("presentations," really) enters your life, your personality, and, in turn, delights the people around you, the cost of this book will be rewarded many, many times over. This is no kiddy's Course in magic, although youngsters with intelligence may begin a lifetime of delight through these pages. This is a careful, complete presentation of magic principles and nifty presentations that EVERY magician must have in his/her library.
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Summary: A Master in his field
Review: I have been working in the art of magic for about thirty years and have had plenty of the young magicians, just starting out, buy this book to work from. He has made the srt cleaner and more fun to learn and preform.
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Summary: Best Single Volume of Magic in Print!
Review: If someone wanted to learn magic and was forced to choose only one book then the best choice they could make would be to beg for, borrow, or steal Mark Wilson's Book! I recommend buying it. -Diamond Jim Tyler
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Summary: One Book
Review: If you want to buy only one book to become a magician, you must buy this book. I did it. Leao Torre do Vale
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Summary: Great for Pros as Well as Beginers
Review: If your a beginer or a pro. Close up or stage this is the book you need
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Summary: The best introductory book for the budding magician.
Review: Mark Wilson has done a great service for the magic community. This book is a must have for the young magician wanting to get started on his road to fun and msytery.
This book covers cards, coins, sponge balls and all the way up to large stage illusions.
This book belongs on every magicians shelf.
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Summary: excellent for newcomers to magic
Review: Mark Wilson has the magic to convey this wonderful subject to newcomers of magic, well written and the drawings are most informitive
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Summary: The best magic book I have ever read!
Review: Mark Wilson is great! You enjoy this book from start to finish. It has a lot (and I mean a lot) of pictures on how the secret moves are supposed to be executed, you can't get them wrong! You become a magician in the moment you buy this book!
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Summary: Really good introductory stuff!!
Review: My mom gave me this book about 10 years ago, when I was 13. I has taught me soooo much and gave me all the basics that I needed to get underway with later, more advanced stuff. It teaches, for example, the basic (and thus, of course, limited) versions of such sleights as the French Drop and the Double-Lift. At that point I could already do tricks that fooled a lot of people, although not many of the real kickers. There are some very good tricks in it, of course, such as his "Sandwiched Aces" which, even today, I use in my repertoire. This is a springboard from which you can (and should) go to the PhD stuff, such as Paul Harris, Harry Lorraine, Ed Marlo, Gary Ouellet. This course is, therefore, a highly-recommended introduction to close-up magic.
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Summary: MY BIBLE!!!!!
Review: THANK MARK WILSON FOR SUCH AN IMPRESIVE BOOK ON THE ART OF MAGIC. FOR ANYONE, ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE WHO NEED ONLY A GUIDE BOOK.
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