Self-Working Mental Magic

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Summary: Do not buy any of the self working books!
Review: All of Karl fulves books are unhelpful. I wasted hours and hours reading and practicing the effects only to get negative results. Everyone thought the tricks were awful. This is why:

With a few exceptions, self working tricks aren't very good. A trick needs a gimmich to be easy or one needs sleight of hand. For magic books, Mark wilsons books are superb. The tricks fool people including the mental magic section. This book is not good for magicians. The best way to become a magician as the experts say is to start with Sleight of hand. There are many sleights that aren't that difficult yet astounding.

Of 5 of Fulves books, i have got one trick that is actually good surprisingly, the cups and balls which many many books talk about.

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Summary: Do not buy any of the self working books!
Review: All of Karl Fulves books didn't help me at all. I wasted hours and hours practicing and reading tricks that don't fool anyone. I do like certain magic tricks. The superb books i have read is by markwilson and Bobo. T

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Summary: Do not buy any of the self working books!
Review: All of Karl Fulves books didn't help me at all. I wasted hours and hours practicing and reading tricks that don't fool anyone. I do like certain magic tricks. The superb books i have read is by markwilson and Bobo. T

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Summary: Gotta have it!
Review: If you see a book written by Karl Fulves on magic that has the words Self-Working in the title then buy it. There is a wealth of knowledge in each of these books. -Diamond Jim Tyler

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Summary: I found this book to be very useful.
Review: Self Working Mental Magic, by Karl Fulves, is an extremely useful book- if not for all of the effects themselves- then at least for the principles introduced. I didn't use many of the tricks exactly as they were presented, however I did find that using the basic premises to create variations on several of them elevated the effects to professional status. I would recommend this book to any amateur magician who is thinking of getting started in mentalism. I think it has many excellent principles contained within its pages. Some of the suggested presentations seem a little elementary, however this is to be expected since the book is aimed at beginners. As stated earlier, the tricks lend themselves quite easily to improvements and variations. The section on "book tests" has some nice effects, and Fulves' variation on the classic "7 Keys to Baldpate" make the book well worth the price. Armed with this book, and a little creativity, any magician will have a number of mental miracles at their fingertips.

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Summary: Easy to learn tricks
Review: The tricks in this book are easy to learn. Within minutes, you will be doing the same tricks magicians such as Uri Geller do. A few require an accomplice, and none require any special skill with slieight of hand.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is amazing. I learned 4 of the tricks in no time at all and people now think I have real mental powers like David Blaine.

You could start a religion with the stuff in this book. Imagine knowing what coin someone chose or knowing what card they put in their pocket. The best trick is where you ask someone to think of any card, just THINK of one, they dont even have to take one from a pack. Then you name it...

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This book is amazing. I learned 4 of the tricks in no time at all and people now think I have real mental powers like David Blaine.

You could start a religion with the stuff in this book. Imagine knowing what coin someone chose or knowing what card they put in their pocket. The best trick is where you ask someone to think of any card, just THINK of one, they dont even have to take one from a pack. Then you name it...

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Summary: Doesn't have any really good menatl effects.
Review: This book is not for the semi-pro or pro mentalist. I did not find any effects in this book that I would use in a mentalist act.

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Summary: Good Stuff
Review: This is an excellent book for two very different reasons. First, it introduces the reader to lots of ideas in mental magic that are not available to the general population(unless they have read this book), and second, it spends time explaining the psychology behind what the 'mindreader' is doing and how it affects the audience. Many of the ideas in this book come from some of the great magicians of the past 50 years, and if nothing else, Karls' variations are well worth the price.