Publisher's description:
"Card Stories is charming, stimulating, and worth your attention." - Max Maven
Card Stories is a practical book about card tricks, presentations, and creativity. Every trick is described with a complete, fully scripted presentation, as well as a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the trick. Not only will you learn strong tricks with memorable presentations, but you’ll gain insights that can help bring your own creations to life.
The tricks feature simple, direct plots that every spectator can follow: Ambitious Card, Card to Mouth, the Collectors, Card through Table, Cannibal Cards, and more. Most tricks can be performed at a moment’s notice, even with a borrowed deck. The handlings are streamlined and require only average card handling ability.
The presentations frame the tricks with stories that interest and touch the audience and helps spectators remember you. The stories use familiar plots: childhood and comic-strip heroes, cannibals and technology, kings and crooks. And more. The stories provide logical reasons for every action, and emotional hooks that make even blasé spectators sit up and take notice.
"Delightful stories combined with strong magic. This book is for anyone who wants to learn more about the art of framing their magic with creative verbal presentations." - Eugene Burger
With every trick is a description of the history and thinking that led to its development, from initial concept to finished product. There’s enough information here to help you get started creating your own tricks and presentations.
This approach is not limited to cards; for instance, there’s a complete close-up act that starts with a card trick, continues with any number of ‘prop’ tricks (such as Tenyo’s Zig-Zag Cigarette, Twister, Soft Coins, etc.), and ends with a sleight-of-hand trick of your choosing. The evolution of the routine is as interesting as the routine itself: it was devised as a result of trying to answer the question, what happens when you present a trick with a fax machine story?
Card Stories has garnered much praise from the magic community and has even been translated into German and Spanish. Get Card Stories today. It can truly change the way you think about magic.
Condition: Very good, a few marks to boards, marking to front endpaper from manufacture.
Binding: Hardback
Year: 1997
Publisher: I Saw That!
Pages: 84
Dimensions (to nearest cm): 23 X 16cm