If you're reading reviews you must be considering purchasing this book. Stop, and just buy it. At
any price it is a steal, but it is downright criminal to not have a copy of this in your library.
Reading even only the first chapter, the novice will learn a lot, the expert a little, both will
find the basis of many tricks you've seen and might even perform yourself. Some have added on or
even turned them into convoluted over-produced versions, but the origins of many tricks are here!
And Messrs. Hugard and Braue provide ample explanation and performance advice that I can't imagine
straying from it as much as some do. Why are you still reading? Buy it.