I watched this at a friends place and I'm glad I didn't waste my money on it. Why is there no list
of effects and topics covered listed above by Penguin? I'll tell you why...
After less than
1 hour and 10 minutes Alain Nu says, "That will conclude my lecture". Seriously. A new Penguin
record! Nu then sits down with Dan Harlan to chat.
Nu presents 2 effects in his "lecture".
A Russian roulette effect with cards and a newspaper test. I didn't care for the Russian roulette
and the newspaper test was unimpressive.
Newspaper test: Nu uses the front page of a
newspaper. Random words are chosen from the page... by spectators you might ask? No. They're chosen
by Nu. How is that random? Well, um... because Nu said so. The 8 (not) random words are written
down. A spectator chooses one of the words. Nu eventually guesses the word by guessing letters that
are in the word. Impressed? Neither was I. There is no way you're going to do this effect instead of
any of the other similar routines you already know.
At the end of this "lecture" while
sitting with Dan Harlan, Nu does a card warp effect. Dan asks, "are you going to show us how to do
all that". Nu says yes. Nu goes over a switch that is involved in the effect, isn't going to teach
how to make an origami card cube that is involved until Dan asks, and never teaches the card warp.
Easily one of the worst Penguin lectures. Please, don't waste your money.
