Magic Tricks

Worst book I've ever bought...
Maybe I'm just over reacting, but somehow I had high expectations and at the end it was just disappointing.

We'll leave aside the visual quality of the book (197 pages written in a font size big enough to be read from the International Space Station, and full of useless pages and images) because there are ugly books with awesome material.

It contains 19 effects, most of them are based on either equivoque, a switch somewhere in the effect, or multiple outs.
The effects are described with minimal presentation: no good premises, no interesting script hooks, nothing useful at all on the scripting side of it.

The methods are sometimes really bad versions of things that already exist, other times they have uncoherent parts/move that I'm sure would look really strange to lay people (and probably would give Darwin Ortiz a heart attack), and most times the title of the effect doesn't have anything to do with what you find there:
- A version of Bob Cassidy's Diary Trick that doesn't even use a diary?? (It's really just a reduced version of Kenton's Kolossal Killer)
- An Add a number effect in which the method has nothing to do with the adding of the numbers?

I don't know... It's a reaaaally weird book... Unfortunately, I also have his other books Mentalized and A State of Mind on my shelf to be read, so I have a painful future to live (or maybe they really surprise me this time)