Negative Positive
Title: Pulls the Wool Right Over Your Eyes...
Review: Talk about a magic trick! There I was, holding this cool-looking book in my hands, so full of excitement and anticipation that I got suckered into buying it. Sadly, the text is so hackneyed, so cheesy, so boring that it takes all the magic out of the subject. Such a shame! In his acknowledgments, Blaine credits some guy named Larry "Ratso" Sloman as a ghost writer of some sort---if this is the case, Blaine should have made Monsieur Ratso disappear. Now there would have been a worthwhile trick! But seriously, in my humble opinion, this book did not amaze or thrill or wow me, even in the last chapters discussing Blaine's own fabulous tricks. The darn writing was so poor that it didn't describe things to create an image of the tricks or evoke any emotion for what is supposed to be Mystery. David Blaine and his publisher might have pulled the wool over my eyes in getting me to buy this book, but they sure botched the magic.
Is the review positive or negative? 