THE BLURB:
13 Steps to Mentalism has become the standard by which all
other mentalism books have been judged. In thirteen
chapters, it details the workings of nearly every catetory
and device useful to the working mentalist. Nail writers,
predictions, card tricks, blindfold tricks, muscle reading,
billets, publicity stunts, patter and presentation and more
are covered within its pages.
MY COMMENTS:
One of the true must-have classics in mentalism as this
covers thirteen key areas of study for mentalists.
Personally, I don't rate it as "the standard by which all
other mentalism books have been judged," but it is up there
in the top books a mentalist should have, and one of the
books a novice mentalist should study.
Be warned, though, quite a bit of the skills taught in this
book are not easy and require much practice, such as nail
writing and muscle reading. Also, I've always felt that
there are better sources to learn to perfect some of these
skills. However, there are some classic effects and the
discussion of these skills is certainly informative enough
so that a mentalist can be knowledgeable of them.
This a 424 page hardback book with a dust jacket. If you're
a serious mentalist, or are planning on being one, you know,
or at least you know now, that you must have this.
