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itsmagic Inner circle middle earth 1117 Posts |
Hhhhmm, first time I read it was boring to me and yada, yada, yada.
After all this praise and worship, I think I will reread it again. |
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toonomads Regular user Albuquerque, NM, USA 172 Posts |
STRONG MAGIC is one of the most important theoretical books in magic. At the time it was published there was much controversy regarding whether this point or that was valid or not. Most people realized, though, that encouraging readers to consider how to make their performances stronger was a valuable contribution to magic.
The reprint of this classic is very timely. Not a book of tricks but one of the most important magic purchases one could ever make. |
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nostrings Loyal user Newport News, VA 293 Posts |
I remember Mike Close's review of it in magic magazine when it was first printed he said he didn't agree with everything Darwin had to say but still gave in high recomendations because if forced you to think
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business New user 30 Posts |
I am not surprised he didn't agree with everything in the book. There is a whole paragraph devoted to criticising his (Mike's) approach!
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gerard1973 Special user Michigan, U.S.A. 688 Posts |
Danny:
If you do not have Strong Magic buy it now because it WILL help you improve your magic performance. Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz is one of my favorite books. Strong Magic is the best performance magic book that I have ever read. Gerard
"Confusion is not magic."
Dai Vernon |
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Larry Davidson Inner circle Boynton Beach, FL 5270 Posts |
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On 2005-01-30 11:17, nostrings wrote: If you agree with everything that Darwin or any person has to say, you're not thinking. I really enjoyed the book. |
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Kjellstrom Inner circle Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe 5203 Posts |
Check this out:
http://www.thecuckoosnest.com/page5.html |
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PeterMagicMan New user 6 Posts |
If you like Strong Magic then try Derren Brown's Absolute Magic! Also makes you think. It's also very easy and enjoyable to read, more so than Strong Magic. I like both books as Eugene Burger says we all have enough tricks, what we need is better presentations.
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saranacbo New user 74 Posts |
On the strength of the recommendations here, I splurged and got Strong Magic. It arrived a couple of weeks ago; I read it every day, and I'm not fully a quarter of the way through it. But that's not because it's written poorly or obscurely or complicatedly--it's just that there's so much really cogent material to mull over.
This is a great book, IMHO. I've been doing magic for 25 years and read everything I can get my hands on (though I confess, the more I read, the more cautious and critical I am about what I buy). But over the years I've read all the classics on performance of magic and I've never found one as insightful as Strong Magic. One of the classics I thought was totally abstract, esoteric, and arbitrary. . . and no help whatsoever in actually learning anything that'd improve my performance. Others were helpful--somewhat. Strong Magic is very different. For one thing, it forces me to examine what I'm doing, why I'm doing it, and how it affects the audience. Once I understand (or at least examine ) those things, I can hopefully improve my presentation. Something else about Darwin's book: He clarifies, repeatedly, key differences between magic magicians might like, but that lay audiences might in fact find either boring or silly or irrelevant. And he proves his points (to me, at least). It's a key distinction, however, because almost all the magic you do for money (or for any other reason, I reckon) will be for lay audiences. This is important because I think a lot of us buy new magic and always try to find the next "ultiimate" trick, instead of re-examining what we do now and how it can be improved. One warning, however: I wouldn't recommend this book for beginners. I think you've got to have a lot of experience performing, in order for Darwin's ideas to actually make sense and not be too abstract (especially since it's an entire book of ideas). And no matter what it says on the book itself, I don't think it's only for close-up workers--especially since I'm not exclusively one. |
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