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Title: blaine's greatest illusion ....
Review: is to get people to buy this book. I'm a huge fan of his and was really looking forward to something meaningful and interesting. Did I expect the secrets of his illusions revealed? No. But what I didn't expect was a history of magic (which was boring), a Houdini biography (which someone else, has probably done better), nor a bunch of self-congratulatory chapters. All one really gets out of this as far as his life is concerned, is that he really loved and still misses his mother. I already knew that he jagged around in Europe and practiced magic, had a bunch of oddball friends (duh, they are magicians after all), he planned and trained really hard for his stunts, and network TV paid him bunch of money to go to exotic places to do magic and witness different cultures. I recommend spending 20 minutes in a bookstore, reading the couple of chapters that have any relevance, and letting someone else buy it.
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