Magic Tricks

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.