Hey people. Do any of you own Regal's set of magic books and care to share whether they are practical and useable in real life? I am intending to purchase the 1st volume only because of one of his tricks (the world's 1st card trick) where multiple spectators are able to shuffle a deck and he will be able to predict the top card. That sounds way impressive...wondering if it works as well as it says.

I think his first book ("Star Quality," written by Harry Lorayne) is his best, followed by "Close Up and Personal," but these books are still better than most. I'd give the first two a perfect "10," while I'd give the "Constant Fooling" tandem a 9-9.5. As with most of his stuff, the material is practical, powerful and entertaining.

Yep that's what i want to hear, it sounds great! I'm definitely going to get it. By the way, don't you guys think that sometimes we know too many card effects and we don't know which are the ones we feel like performing to audiences? I had this problem most of the time when someone asks me to do something for him and I'm wondering which effect I should do. Most books and DVDs feature card tricks and I'm wondering how many of each you have added to your repertoire.

Just get a few "workers" (as Mike Close would call it) in the real world and perfect them.