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eryanic Special user 683 Posts |
Hmm....1000 units is a best seller??
So there are only about 1000 copies of Complete Works of Derek Dingle, Secrets of Bro John Hamman...etc?? I thought 1000 for most products will go easily in US and Europe... |
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Charlie Justice Inner circle Mount Dora, Florida 1142 Posts |
Such small numbers for best sellers. I think it's a sad state of affairs to think that a copy machine might see more copies of great magic books than the publishers printing press.
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anticoin Regular user 194 Posts |
Anyone knows how many copies of DMF have been sold??
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delgadil Regular user 197 Posts |
Just finished reading through DMF and working through many of the effects.
This is one of the best books I have purchased in the past few years. Full of excellent usable material, many using very sophisticated and subtle principles. Up to Bannon's already established high standards. I am thrilled with this book. My faves include: - Dead Reckoning (impossible location) - Power of Poker (excellent poker deal) - Beyond Fabulous (great Christ Ace routine) - Wait Until Dark (streamlines Shufflebored effect with cool theme) It's all great stuff! Kevin |
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Curmudgeon Loyal user Iowa 245 Posts |
I just saw John Bannon at LVMI and his Bullet Train routine was amazing!!! I bought his book but haven't had a chance to read through any of it yet.
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KevinKM99 New user 78 Posts |
Dead Reckoning completely fried me at LVMI. For those in the know -- when he says "Whoa, did you just feel that? -- that very moment gave me chills. And when I read the method and realized how simple and self-working it was, I said to myself, "Mr. Bannon, you've done it again."
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anticoin Regular user 194 Posts |
I just finished reading the whole book...
I would like to take back my previous comments on this book, and say how wonderful this book is... some may say Smoke & Mirrors is a better buy, but in a way, they are 2 different books... This book concentrates on card tricks alone, and Bannon puts more of his thinking into this book... I would rate both Smoke & mirros and Dear Mr Fantasy 10/10....though one may like either one better, both are still equally good. It's just a matter of taste or preference. I'm a little bit surprised that no one posted their thoughts on this book. Before it was out, everyone was waiting for it. Hopefully that when it was finally released, everyone did buy them.... One of my best buys over the last 5 years... I'll leave the judging up to you guys when you have finished reading the book |
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gkfreed Special user 532 Posts |
I'm a big fan of Bannon's and loved this book. "Out of Touch" and "Power of Poker" in particular. (For Power of Poker, I have two folded $1 bills in my pocket with the alternate predictions on the back. After the whole card is picked, I remember to take out the $1 offer (those who have the book know what I'm talking about).
Now when the hands are shown, I have an exact prediction, laid down way in advance. *** this one is fun to do! |
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Paul Sherman Inner circle Arlington, VA 1511 Posts |
Maybe they're too busy performing all that great material to post here. Seriously though, I'm also a little surprised there isn't more feedback from people. Maybe people feel any more kudos would just be superfluous.
I sincerely hope people don't let this be one of those books you put on your shelf and never get around to reading.
"The finished card expert considers nothing too trivial that in any way contributes to his success..." Erdnase
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eryanic Special user 683 Posts |
Over-hyped? Maybe..
Over-rated? Definitely not!! |
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Craig Chamberlain New user Michigan, USA 49 Posts |
This is a wonderful book. The card tricks have a variety of plots, with interesting premises or presentation hooks. They are very effective magic but do not require a high level of technical ability. They are suitable for close-up and some also for parlor environments. For the most part they do not have restrictions such as requiring that you be seated or work to only certain angles.
The book is fun to read, and complete. I take notes at lectures, not on method, but on little offhand comments that the lecturer makes that I often find valuable but which usually don't make it into the book. Not in this case. Everything Mr. Bannon said at the lecture in Chicago is in the book. If you judge value by the number of tricks in a book for the price paid, buy a Dover reprint. For me, this book has very good content and is an enjoyable read, and was a very satisfactory purchase. |
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broothal Elite user Europe 448 Posts |
John Bannon always delivers. I'd say that I found more real-world material in Smoke & Mirros and Impossibilia than in this one. Rarely do I have the table-space to do a 4-ace assembly.
None of the effects in this book will make it into my working repetoir, but I still recommend it and I'll still buy all books from Mr. Bannon in the future. As someone mentioned above, it's really not fair to compare this to the previous bestsellers since they are different books. I agree completely to that comment. |
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AmazingKeithy New user Round Rock, Texas 99 Posts |
Just in case someone missed it:
Though "Dead Reckoning" and "Dawn Patrol" are separated by "Out of Touch", "Dawn Patrol" can be performed immediately on the heels of "Dead Reckoning" w/o any get ready (though for a small price). Sincerely, Keith Mitchell |
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T. Joseph O'Malley Inner circle Canada 1937 Posts |
Paul Sherman,
you've convinced me, based on your review a few pages back. I've ordered this book from Mr Bannon's site. I look forward to its arrival.
tjo'
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Christopher Williams Inner circle Portsmouth, UK 4464 Posts |
I love this book tp pieces, it has been a while since I have found such an interesting read of effects I can and will use. I love the Bob Ostin book which I have also bought recently, but this is an awesome book. I love Dead Reckoning, Last man standing and Power to Poker
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Paul Sherman Inner circle Arlington, VA 1511 Posts |
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On 2005-06-27 16:54, T. Joseph O'Malley wrote: Glad you found the review helpful. I hope you enjoy the book.
"The finished card expert considers nothing too trivial that in any way contributes to his success..." Erdnase
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sawrath New user United Kingdom 29 Posts |
Dead reckoning, what an effect!
As usual, Mr bannon's work is up to a very high standard! One of the few books I've read cover to cover at once! |
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Verno Inferno Regular user Chicago 132 Posts |
I'll tell you why I love this book... Much of it has obviously been developed by an amateur who lives by the following rule: "I don't perform for people in social settings unless they hand me a deck of cards."
So it's filled with wonderful effects that can be performed with unprepared decks of cards handed to you from your host's home. Personally, my only beef with the book (and it's not really a beef, I guess) is that there are a few moves/presentations that are "magician foolers." He gives explanations for moves that are passable for laymen as alternatives, but I'm beginning to reinvision the whole book as a reaction to wanting to fool magicians. Some of the routines may also be born out of defying magician expectations as well. Take Bullet Train. I loved it when I saw him perform it at the Chicago lecture. We all did. It's quite disarming. But is it disarming only because we are magicians and are familiar with the standard timing of a four ace trick? For laymen, will Bullet Train leave them thinking that the magician is rushing things? For laymen is the standard timing of a 4 ace trick better than this "disarming" syncopated timing? I think it might be. But then again, I haven't audience-tested Bullet Train... I'm sure John has. And I'm thinking that lay audiences may have an internal sense of how all tricks/drama are timed, making the off-beat nature of the routine effective... we shall see. Overall, I love this book. I love the ideas. And I don't care what anyone says above, I love his thoughts/ideas in Chapter 2!!! I stopped doing Henry Christ's Fabulous 4 ace trick years ago. The ending to Beyond Fabulous and the full set of tricks before it have resurrected this classic. It's too many random, amazing, miraculous things happening with a borrowed deck of unprepared cards to be ignored. For those who have performed this set in front of lay audiences: Do you think his re-blocked Dr. Daley's too strong to precede Beyond Fabulous? I'm debating... love the book. |
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Jeff Haas Special user 929 Posts |
I think the timing in Bullet Train is more of a personality fit. Bannon mentions he was inspired by Lennart Green. If you've seen Lennart perform, you know he's always doing "unexpected" things as whimsical surprises.
I think the unexpected timing in Bullet Train is best performed by someone who understands it and can pull it off correctly. Jeff |
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Verno Inferno Regular user Chicago 132 Posts |
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On 2005-07-01 04:16, Jeff Haas wrote: I trust that quote applies to all effects? Anywho... I understand the timing. I only wonder if that timing is stronger than the timing of an ace assembly like McDonald's where they see the aces "go" one by one. Let's take Copperfield's mastery of the ace assembly he performed a few years back. The cards visually vanished from the top row and mysteriously found themselves in the leader packet. Sure, everyone expects that when the leader packet is turned over it's all aces in those types of ace assemblies. Is that less impressive? Okay, no, it's just different. I re-read Bannon's thinking about the timing last night. It still didn't ring 100% true for me. He's saying that each trick has an internal clock, an internal timing, a rythm dictating when certain things are supposed to happen. "Supposed to happen": does the audience have the same expectations of when things are "supposed to happen" as magicians who've seen a million ace assemblies? We know that after those 12 God-less, uncaring, indifferent cards are set on top of the aces that the magician will then display the ace and make it disappear/change. Go to the next ace. Do the same thing. Repeat. Reveal the leader packet. So we are disarmed by Bullet Train in a way that I think an audience may not be. I don't deny that an audience has an expectation of the internal timing of an ace assembly, even if they've never seen one (certainly they think you've merely "set-up" the card for a cool trick and the magic has not happened yet). I simply wonder if frustrating/deceiving that expectation for a lay-audience is any better than fulfilling it. I still like Bullet Train. I think it's snappy. |
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