Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

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Summary: Penn & Teller's How To Play In Traffic
Review: A great book for diehard fans of this duo. Also great for anyone that wants to impress or humileate their friends.

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Summary: Penn & Teller's How To Play In Traffic
Review: A great book for diehard fans of this duo. Also great for anyone that wants to impress or humileate their friends.

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Summary: Did not live up to expectations!
Review: After reading several reviews on this site giving the book 5 stars I expected at least a MOSTLY entertaining book. Some of the tricks are cool, some of the book was fun to read but mostly boring. Definately not a 5 star book (unless you live and breath Penn and Teller). A better book would be MAGIC FOR DUMMIES!

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Summary: Is Teller our greatest living prose stylist?
Review: After rereading his brilliant, unexpectedly moving essay "In the Muetter Museum," which is featured in this book, I'm beginning to think so. Of course there's also Penn to deal with, and his trademark in-your-face crassness gives a distasteful edge to this compendium of tricks, stunts and random prose entertainments. I have a feeling P&T may have shot their wad with "How To Play With Your Food," which is their finest book to date (and unfortunately out of print now.) There's nothing in this to rival the glowing pickle, the Satanic tortilla, or that incredible story about Penn and the milkshake. But it is P&T, and thus sacred and beloved of all fans of cutting-edge entertainment, and a worthy contribution to the literature of the skeptical movement.

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Summary: a *wonderful* thing to torture people with
Review: even if you're not the hugest p&t fan (ha!) i swear on ron jeremy you'll start to fall in love after reading this book....besides some pretty dang good (well, entertaining) stories and twisted insights, you'll find a plethora o' tricks and scams that give life a nice, zany twist (it also makes people very afraid of you, which can be a very fun thing). penn's story about comedy timing and teller's bit on the mutter museum are two of my favorites. buy the goshdarn book!!!

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Summary: Read it for the Stories
Review: I am pretty sure the tricks described herein wouldn't work with the people I know, as all of the stunts involve a lot of acting and dialogue as part of the set-up. That said, who cares? This book is hilarious, and as a simple work of comedy, it kills. The now-familiar Penn rants are hysterical, and the descriptions of the duo's friends and favorite places are quite interesting. In particular, the review of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (of anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, etc.) is a dark and touching tribute. There is a confusing piece of fiction about a man granted three wishes that I found odd, but otherwise, the book's flow was nice and seamless. As with the live P & T show, there are a lot of great quotes and witticisms. No great work of literature, this, but an extremely effective piece of travel writing that is a hair more intelligent than other books similarly categorized.

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Summary: Read it for the Stories
Review: I am pretty sure the tricks described herein wouldn't work with the people I know, as all of the stunts involve a lot of acting and dialogue as part of the set-up. That said, who cares? This book is hilarious, and as a simple work of comedy, it kills. The now-familiar Penn rants are hysterical, and the descriptions of the duo's friends and favorite places are quite interesting. In particular, the review of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (of anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, etc.) is a dark and touching tribute. There is a confusing piece of fiction about a man granted three wishes that I found odd, but otherwise, the book's flow was nice and seamless. As with the live P & T show, there are a lot of great quotes and witticisms. No great work of literature, this, but an extremely effective piece of travel writing that is a hair more intelligent than other books similarly categorized.

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Summary: Good stuff!
Review: I just got my copy of "How to Play in Traffic" and was awake looooong into the night reading it (and often laughing outloud!). Apparently, judging from a couple of the reviews, some people thought this was supposed to be a book on performing magic tricks and were disappointed. But having read the other Penn&Teller books, I was very pleased to find the book was sooooo much more -- the hilarious anecdotes, the funny prose, the wonderful pictures. If you're in to P&T, this books is a pleaser! :-)

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Summary: Good stuff!
Review: I just got my copy of "How to Play in Traffic" and was awake looooong into the night reading it (and often laughing outloud!). Apparently, judging from a couple of the reviews, some people thought this was supposed to be a book on performing magic tricks and were disappointed. But having read the other Penn&Teller books, I was very pleased to find the book was sooooo much more -- the hilarious anecdotes, the funny prose, the wonderful pictures. If you're in to P&T, this books is a pleaser! :-)

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Summary: Another Great Book
Review: I've read all of P&T's previous books, and this one is of equally high-quality. Not only are the pranks top notch (and most of them quite practical) but the narrative is highly entertaining. Good stuff!