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Pete Legend Inner circle Ireland 1401 Posts |
Hey lads,
How's the craic?! I've been away from here for an old spell so to the people who have private mailed me..my bad I will attack them (the pm's not the people) when I get a chance I've been performing booktests for actually years now and used to always introduce the book and give it a reason for using it. These days I simply bring out two books (Moab and it's younger sister) and hand them out. I simply ask how many pages are in each book and how many words are roughly on the page that they have secretly turned to and to pick any word from the page... If I'm feeling a bit cheeky I might say the following " John are you a Harry Potter fan? Ah very good there you go.." Simply it suggests to most of the audience that I'm handing John a Harry Potter novel but in reality I'm just giving John MOAB and asking him a question about his reading tastes. The reactions I've gotten are great,I don't really explain why I'm using the books as it's fairly obvious when the spectators tell everyone how many pages are in their book and how many words are on their page, that their are literally thousands of words to chose from. Anyways just wondering do many here follow the same path? I feel it places less focus on the book itself. I guess though each to their own. Oh if your bored here's a link to a performance where I use book books though I don't go all the way and use all of the above ploys : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sD0HEMMNhk Cheers lads! Pete |
innercirclewannabe Inner circle Ireland 1597 Posts |
Welcome back, Pete! I don't use the MOABT yet, but - good video posted, looked like everyone was having FUN, FUN FUN!
Tá sé ach cleas má dhéanann tú sé cuma mhaith ar cheann.
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Billy-one Inner circle IOWA 1028 Posts |
Pete,
Awesome performance bro! To be honest, had to watch it a few times to decipher the accent...but it was worth the views! Billy |
david12345 Special user 714 Posts |
Mostly I don't give reasons, I agree it should be fairly obvious once the spectator verifies the page and word count.
Welcome back, David |
Pete Legend Inner circle Ireland 1401 Posts |
Thanks very much lads!
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