UNLESS you want to spend a good amount of additional money to create one of his gaffed routines
towards the back of the book, OR want to learn about his work (over 100 pages) on the Okito Box, I'd
honestly pass this book by and buy his 2 famous coin series instead.
Why? But isn't it a
classic? Comparing the book to his DVD series "Expert Coin Magic Made Easy", and his "Ultimate Coin
magic series", there really is VERY little (outside of the aforementioned two above points) to gain
in terms of subtlety that isn't already covered in his DVDs, or his New York Coin Seminar
DVD's...all of which available at Penguin. <3
I honestly have learned more from Roth's
visual learning DVD's than I have from having to decipher Richard Kaufman's writing in this
literature...AND IM A HEAVY BOOK GUY! The book put me to sleep!
That said I love all of
Richard Kaufman's other work (ESPECIALLY him covering the work on Brother John Hamman), though I
sincerely did not like the book, and I read it from cover to cover, possibly unlike other reviewers.
So again, (TL;DR) if you want to learn about Okito boxes or his complicated gaff routines
that took him around the world, get the book. Everything else? Its covered in DVD sets, with MUCH
more clarity and detail than in this book.
Not much offered that isn't already in video...
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