Magic Tricks

This is a good investment for the stated purpose and should be helpful if you really want to push forward to semi-pro/pro-work. I am not sorry I bought the book. Others here have expounded at length about the book's strengths, so I won't dwell on them.

I didn't rate this book higher because of the extremely goofy way the book is typeset. It looks like it was printed by a manic high school kid who just discovered how to insert various fonts into his work and just couldn't control himself. Hugely unneccesary and distracting. Makes it hard to concentrate, frankly, and imho weakens the message. Also, the lines are widely spaced throughout. That plus the spacing required by larger fonts = padding and more blank space/page than you would expect for a book this size. What this means is that you are paying for a lot of dead trees and aren't getting the same value as you would expect from a normally produced book of this size. The material is actually worth the price WITHOUT the goofiness and padding. Heck I'd have paid more if it were produced in a mature and standard fashion and it would have been cheaper to print.