So I guess this is now out! I haven't heard much about it but I expect it's fantastic. 29 old and new tricks by David Acer. I'm holding off buying it until I see David at Magi Fest but I was wondering if anyone had a copy and what your thoughts are on the book.

Can be purchased here: http://www.magicbookshop.com/product_inf......id=16350

I love David's magic. Super clever, easy to do and very practical. He also pays really well for plugging his stuff on the Café!

Ditto!

Mines on the way.

He pays well? But only in canadian money... I mean really... Ya might as well get paid in soup labels...

Very true. Lesson learned!

More Power To You, is on its way together with Tom Stone's Maelstrom, they should arrive any day now hopefully.

I got my book a week ago. There are 29 old and new tricks, plus 3 bonus street magic effects, in the book. For card workers, you may want to know there are 13 card effects in the book.

Overall, the effects are all very solid and they are based on David Acer's previous materials. You may be familiar with some effects like Around the World in Eighty Dollars, Time Flies, Nomen Omen etc. There are 2 'stage' effects which close-up workers may not perform but it's fun to learn them.

Technically speaking, it is not a book for beginner and it needs strong presentation skill (though no need to be as strong as David's) to unleash the full potential of the tricks. No trick is difficult to do but practice is for-sure necessary. Some effects, like Overtime, is super easy to do and plays very well. And The Trinary Cut is by far one of the easiest and visual in-hand false cut I've ever seen and still use todays. The last effect 'The Gift of the Magi' is a christmas effect with templates given as a separate sheet, you will enjoy this effect if you could get it before Christmas (I doubt how many magicians have bought the book the first day it released like I did though...) But if you could not get the book in time, you can use the effect in next Christmas. It's a timeless effect!

The book is 182 pages and the writing style is, as you expected, very entertaining. I would recommend this book to any close-up worker.

Btw, you can watch a few effects performed by David here.

http://www.davidacer.com/david-acer-magi......you.html

Alex Hui

Mine is wrapped and under the tree. Love David's material and thinking. Plus I purchased it from a Canadian magic shop and they accepted soup labels and a couple of bucks worth of Canadian Tire money.

John

I'm a David Acer nut so to me just reading it is worth the American dollars. It is hard to make claims about it's "magic" value if you have (as I do) all of his previous books and DVDs.