Title: Sleights not Tricks
Review: This book is exactly what it says "lessons in sleight of hand", and for that purpose alone is a brilliant book, and a must-have for any aspiring conjurer.What the book does not give are lessons in how to use most of the sleights taught to perform tricks. As any performer can tell you, presentation is at least half if not most of performing. For example, just knowing the steps doesn't make you a dancer.True there are a (very) few full tricks included in the text, but this book would best be used as a companion book with some other that focused less on prestidigitation, and more on presentation, patter, and performance.That being said, the authors do a fantastic job explaining and displaying the sleights, and buying this book was money well spent.
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