This is the worst "cold reading" product I've come across so far. It doesn't even really say
anything useful about cold reading. The basic NLP info can be found in any NLP book you pick up at
the bookstore for under 20 bucks. Give this one a skip and check out The Dance (brad henderson),
The Full Facts of Cold Reading (Ian Rowland), and some Herb Dewey and Richard Webster Books.
Tradecraft is pretty good too. Even Completely Cold has more useful information than this product
does.
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The other review I read here trashed the Wonder Readings set as a poor choice to learn cold reading.
The reviewer completely missed the point of this collection of applications for "Wonder Words." In
my opinion, this material by Knepper and Sikes is designed to get you as a performer to enhance the
sense of mystery and Wonder in the routines your are already performing. It should provoke your
thinking in this area. It does not,to my way of thinking, advertise itself as a guide to
cold-reading. It's a different, psychologically sound approach to mystery through verbal approaches.
Not for every performer, and even for me it doesn't fit every routine I might care to perform, but
an important adjunct to the mystery worker that wants to add additional layers of meaning to their
communication, and the impact that a routine can have for spectators.
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