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Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room. The clearest, easiest-to-follow book of step-by-step directions, The Amazing Book of Cards will show anyone how to do 52 amazing things with a deck of cards. Written by Joshua Jay, the award-winning close-up magician and card-obsessed author of Magic: The Complete Course, The Amazing Book of Cards combines friendly, concise text and full-color photos with a full-length DVD that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Here are simple, killer tricks, like "Presto Prediction," which performs the impossible task of knowing someone's choice before she even makes it. Nine different shuffles, including the Faro Shuffle, the one most often used by pros, which helps you perfectly weave a split deck together in seconds. How to perform fans, flips, and flourishes, including Ribbon Spread Flip and Catch-a-Deck. Tricks you can't lose go ahead, take the bet to throw a card in a hat. How to memorize a deck in less than ten seconds, how to put a deck of cards into a glass bottle, build a card castle, and more. Filling out this labor of love is a whole world of card trivia, including the origins of Kings: King of Spades is modeled after King David, the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar, Hearts is Charlemagne, and Clubs, Alexander the Great.
About the Author
Joshua Jay was crowned champion at the World Magic Seminar in 1998, when he was still a teenager. He's performed and lectured in over 50 countries, has headlined at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, and writes a monthly column in MAGIC, the leading magazine for magicians. He lives in New York City and his website is www.joshuajay.com.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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An Excellent Guide to Card Tricks and Techniques, Aug 13 2010
By David J. Perdue "MINDSTORMS author" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards: Tricks, Shuffles, Games & Hustles Plus Bets You Can't Lose (Paperback)
I remember reading a sample of this book online to see if it truly was an "amazing" book of cards. I pulled out a deck of cards, started reading, and within minutes made up my mind to buy the book. Author and magician Joshua Jay has packed this book with some top-notch material that goes well beyond a collection of intriguing card tricks.In addition to a number of card tricks (something we all surely expect), the book includes instructions for card shuffles, stunts, and hustles. So far, I've actually enjoyed learning the shuffles more than the tricks themselves. I'm not learning just how to perform card tricks--I'm learning how to handle cards with precision and grace.
I've also enjoyed the book's full-color images and companion DVD. Besides the book's gorgeous layout, the DVD brings the tricks to life--and facilitates learning--by showing not only how to execute the tricks but also how to perform the tricks. In case you haven't heard, there's a big difference between being able to do a trick and perform a trick. Performance is half the trick, if not more.
Notably, Joshua Jay's "Amazing Book of Cards" is an introductory book. While the book does contain some tricks or techniques that might be considered advanced, this book only scratches the surface of what's possible. If you're serious about card magic, you'll soon want to pick up some more books to expand your knowledge.
Overall, I'm highly pleased with this book and look forward to many happy hours perfecting the perfect Faro shuffle, which is the most precise shuffle in the world. There's even a one-handed Faro shuffle variation that apparently fewer than 100 people worldwide can perform.
Maybe someday I can be one of them.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good overall, Jan 4 2011
By Loyal T. - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards: Tricks, Shuffles, Games & Hustles Plus Bets You Can't Lose (Paperback)
I thought it was pretty good! The book can help you gain a solid understanding in card magic and give you some sweet ways to impress some friends. Joshua is a great magician and it's certainly clear through his teachings. For a book I enjoyed it a lot.I've been doing card magic for a while so I've acquired a few DVD's and books. Royal Road to Card Magic (Dover) is still probably one of the best books out there but the patter given is largely outdated. The DVD was "OK" in my opinion and thought Crash Course in Sleight of Hand Card Tricks - Magic Tricks for Beginners - Volume 1 by Ellusionist.com was a little better on explaining the sleights visually.
All in all though grab the book it's got some cool routines.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great introduction to cards, Nov 28 2010
By Gamer Dad - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards: Tricks, Shuffles, Games & Hustles Plus Bets You Can't Lose (Paperback)
Joshua Jay's book of cards was a fun purchase. There are quite a few seemingly simplistic tricks to do and he does well explaining them in the book. I found the dvd to be invaluable to my success for learning the few I have. Personally, what I liked best out of this book/dvd were not the tricks, but the card handling techniques. The root of all these tricks is truly knowing how to handle the cards and Josh puts you on the right track for this.This book is mainly for people who are just starting out with card tricks or looking to improve on thier shuffles and presentation at home poke games. It fit my need perfectly and I will be buying more of his books in the future.
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