The celebrity authors of How to Play with Your Food take pranks on the road in a fiendishly funny compendium of traveling mischief that includes practical jokes, miracles, and anecdotes. Travel has has never been so much fun!.
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While Star Trek fans, role-playing game fans, and even comic book fans eventually find each other and develop something like social groups, teenage magicians are, due to the rarity of their particular geek kink, more likely to remain socially retarded than any other group. That isolation and talent for magic allowed Penn & Teller a great deal of time to devote to revenge, mayhem, and making others look foolish. Now they share their techniques, as well as the wisdom one gains from acquiring happiness only after being ostracized and ridiculed, in Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic. A mixture of tricks you can do in hotel rooms, cars, and planes, some ill-advised methods for screwing with the minds of airport security personnel, and a series of memoirs of the unusual people they've met on their B-venue journeys around the world, How to Play in Traffic is not only funny (as one would expect from Penn & Teller) but also oddly insightful.
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Format:Paperback
Penn & Teller, the self-proclamed "bad boys of magic" and ripoff artistes come through again. This is a very funny book of travel stories plus antics that you, yourself can do, while on the road. Tricks include making the Virgin Mary appear in any photograph, doctoring the flight safety card, how to stop a shaken pop can from exploding in your face and make another one explode in someone else's instead, and how to make someone pick a card which is engraved on an actual cenotaph. Lots of mean fun to be had.
By buddyhead
Format:Paperback
I am pretty sure the tricks described herein wouldn't work with the people I know, as all of the stunts involve a lot of acting and dialogue as part of the set-up. That said, who cares? This book is hilarious, and as a simple work of comedy, it kills. The now-familiar Penn rants are hysterical, and the descriptions of the duo's friends and favorite places are quite interesting. In particular, the review of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia (of anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments, etc.) is a dark and touching tribute. There is a confusing piece of fiction about a man granted three wishes that I found odd, but otherwise, the book's flow was nice and seamless. As with the live P & T show, there are a lot of great quotes and witticisms. No great work of literature, this, but an extremely effective piece of travel writing that is a hair more intelligent than other books similarly categorized.
By gail
Format:Paperback
A great book for diehard fans of this duo. Also great for anyone that wants to impress or humileate their friends.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Is Teller our greatest living prose stylist?
After rereading his brilliant, unexpectedly moving essay "In the Muetter Museum," which is featured in this book, I'm beginning to think so. Read more
Published on Jun 8 2000 by Mrs. George
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good stuff!
I just got my copy of "How to Play in Traffic" and was awake looooong into the night reading it (and often laughing outloud!). Read more
Published on Sep 21 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
a *wonderful* thing to torture people with
even if you're not the hugest p&t fan (ha!) i swear on ron jeremy you'll start to fall in love after reading this book.... Read more
Published on May 18 1999
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good reading & Good tricks
This book is better reading material than previous Penn & Teller books. The explanation of NASA's definition of comedy timing is worth the price of the book all by itself. Read more
Published on Mar 29 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a great book!
This is the first Penn and Teller book that I have read, and it was awesome. It was very funny. The tricks were really cool (it's amazing what people will believe), and Penn's... Read more
Published on Jan 6 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
The only travel book you'll need!
This book is definitely one of the funniest, most intriguing travel books i've ever read! From the tricks to the jokes, this is one of the best! Read more
Published on Jan 2 1999 by Ittai
3.0 out of 5 stars
A little disappointing
If you've read "Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends" and "How to Play with your Food," I think you'll be mildly disappointed here. Read more
Published on Dec 8 1998
5.0 out of 5 stars
This book rocks.
This book rocks big. REALLY funny
Published on Nov 21 1998
1.0 out of 5 stars
Get your money back.
If you bought this, get your money back. There are other more interesting books on magic. If you are a Penn & Teller fan and can handle hundreds of pages of pure boredom, buy... Read more
Published on Nov 14 1998
3.0 out of 5 stars
Did not live up to expectations!
After reading several reviews on this site giving the book 5 stars I expected at least a MOSTLY entertaining book. Read more
Published on Oct 20 1998
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