Top 5 Magic Books I Keep Reading

[@EruditeMagic]

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[@Davlavi]

Great recommendations.

[@nancyanderson5320]

It is Sunday with Jeff!😊

[@EruditeMagic]

So glad you're here!

[@Ejohnd1]

Thanks!

[@EruditeMagic]

Thank *you* John! Appreciate your gift - glad you find the content useful. #keepreading

[@StoneColdMagic]

Nice! One of my books showed up at 00:46. ❤

[@EruditeMagic]

Which one? 🤔

[@StoneColdMagic]

@@EruditeMagic - Diary of a Madman. I released it in 2021.

[@nancyanderson5320]

I agree with your choice of David Regal Approaching Magic. Lots of treasures there.

[@EruditeMagic]

💯 Do you have a favorite trick or section from it?

[@christophebaixas9036]

Nice video I enjoy to watch when I happen to order new magic books. Maximum entertainment 2.0 is definitely a book I am going to order. I wish you made a video about Scripting Magic by Pete McCabe... to my point of view this is a fantastic book since it gathers scripting from all kind of magicians. This made me buy new books, rediscover "classic tricks" I thought were outdated and it helped me work on the invaluable power of scripting in magic. It is definitely a book I believe you should appreciate ! Looking forward to see a new episode of erudite magic on this two volume bookset. Thanks for your channel and your work !! Bien cordialement from France !

[@EruditeMagic]

Merci, mon ami! I actually did do a review of Scripting Magic, but it's not overt in the title: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXLRmauqo9GHotE

[@christophebaixas9036]

@@EruditeMagic My mistake🤐 ! Thanks for the link, be sure I will watch it carefully ! 😇 !!

[@EruditeMagic]

No worries - enjoy!

[@georgeyounts9391]

Super Silly, Scarne on Card Tricks, Conjuroring Anthology, Nothing But Mystery (1,2&3), and recent new one now (because it's challenging) Calculated Thoughts. Another great post again. Thank you!

[@EruditeMagic]

Thank *you* for watching and taking time to comment, George!

[@DaniMarko]

Oh, mine are : the AoA series, the jinx, the amateur magician handbook, bobos and the Tarbell series. I read them at least once a year

[@EruditeMagic]

All great choices, too! Thanks for sharing 😃👍

[@Genethagenius]

I’m a big Vernon fan and “Stars of Magic” was the second magic book (after Vernon’s own “Revelations”, my 1st which included the complete “EATCT”) I ever purchased. I still love it and refer back to it. Soooo many classics of magic in there! Every magician should at least have a PDF copy!

[@EruditeMagic]

Stars of Magic is so great! Do you have a favorite trick from it?

[@evanbishop7771]

Great video, Jeff! At the moment, mine would be the AoA series, Approaching Magic + Interpreting Magic, One Degree (smaller book but love nearly everything in it), and Stars of Magic. Also come back to Apocalypse quite a bit, but now I’m pushing it! Hope someone will eventually republish The Card Magic of Nick Trost, the Bob Cassidy books, and the Vernon books!

[@EruditeMagic]

Awesome 👌

[@ScottRSmith1964]

Thank you Jeff, another great show! By my calculations, we only have 4 more Sundays until Magifest! Have a Merry Christmas! The Nick Trost is my number one book as well. I think the Steve Beam Series and Marty Kane's book Card Chickanery. I love fun magic that is easy to learn. The very first trick in the Nick Trost book is my go-to trick! I love it.

[@dougdern-attorney]

Good video. The bob Cassidy book. I've read over and over. Most of my act comes from that book great stuff. Bob Cassidy told me the book he goes to over and over was the amateur magicians handbook. I would probably have put that book on my list. I've never read the nick trost card magic book.

[@EruditeMagic]

Thanks, Doug! Great choices, and that's cool you got to speak with Bob. I never had the pleasure

[@nancyanderson5320]

Jeff can you include the link for the library’s link to buy the PDF for Bob Cassidy book?

[@EruditeMagic]

www.lybrary.com/bob-cassidys-mentalism-p-206.html I'll also put it in the description

[@jakelundgren2116]

Maximum entrainment is one of my top ones too! But along with that, all of the Jerx books, as well as Denis Behr’s Handcrafted Card Magic Series!

[@EruditeMagic]

Love it. I haven't had the pleasure on some of your list. Maybe one day... 😁

[@jakelundgren2116]

@@EruditeMagic once you see Denis at Magifest you’ll be hooked, I promise

[@EruditeMagic]

Looking forward to it!

[@dustyhill9379]

Def agree with the Nick Trost book. (still waiting to run across someone playing a few of those super ancient card games mentioned in the poker section to whip out my skills lol) And love everything by Regal.

[@EruditeMagic]

😆 - true about whist and pinochle. But the principles are still so relevant. Do you have a favorite Trost trick? 🤔

[@dustyhill9379]

@@EruditeMagic lol Absolutely. There's a few that I do regularly. There's a Jokers to Aces effect I love and do all the time.

[@AnandMagic9]

Hey Jeff! Will you be at Magifest by any chance? I’d love to say hello!

[@EruditeMagic]

Absolutely I will! I'd love to meet you - see you soon 😃👍

[@Friendsgamingetc]

That’s a great list Jeff, since I haven’t completed your foundational list of books ie card college etc I would say if an octopus could palm just due to the ability the book has to inspire and motivate me to continue studying, and try knuckle busting sleight of hand in performance and nail it (most of the time)

[@EruditeMagic]

I've heard of this one, but never read it. How many times have you read it?

[@Friendsgamingetc]

@@EruditeMagic about 5 times, I look at some of the sleights and think I’ll attempt that in a few months of learning more foundational magic, but then others like undertow, I had to learn straight away and manage it use it in live performances occasionally ! Also today I managed to pick up mark Wilson’s complete course in hardback in great condition for £10 from a charity shop! Used books are definitely the way to go.

[@EruditeMagic]

Sweet on the discount find!!

[@arielsfr]

In my youth, the book I wore out to shreds was Frank Garcia's "Super Subtle Card Miracles". It's for much the same reason you keep going back to "Stars of Magic": although the book is by Garcia, it contains some of the best card magic by some of the best card handlers of the time. In the last few years, I found myself coming back regularly to J.G.Thompson Jr.'s "My Best", Annemann's "Practical Mental Effects", and Bascom Jones's "Magick". They contain such a variety of material that you can't help but be inspired to create something new. And of course, there are reference books that you just can't ignore, like the Tarbells.

[@EruditeMagic]

Great list 📚❗

[@Tombrassil]

I keep coming back to so many different books! One Degree is top of the list, and Andrew Galloway's Diverting Coin Magic (probably soon to be joined by Rubinstein Coin Magic as a regular re-read!) Just finished my first complete re-read of Ortiz's Designing Miracles. Pit Hartling's In Order to Amaze is on the list to re-read if I can ever stop buying new books for long enough...

[@EruditeMagic]

"if I can ever stop buying new books for long enough." ☝️this 😆

[@Tombrassil]

@@EruditeMagic I hold you at least partially responsible 😅 For instance, I just bought the AoA trilogy after your recent 3-part video series got them stuck in my head.

[@EruditeMagic]

Guilty ✋. Er, "happy to help" 😆

[@Noleggeisha]

Absolute Magic by Derren Brown Scripting Magic by Pete McCabe Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz Magic and meaning by Eugene Burger The Books of Wonder by Tommy Wonder. I might have a look at the David Regal’s books, thank you for pointing them out !

[@EruditeMagic]

David Regal is the man! Enjoy your journey 😃👍

[@cloudhill]

I hope someone out there hears your call for Nick Trost rights - I would love to see that republished and finally get my own copy!

[@RobertBallMagician]

Wonderful review of your books. I have a copy of Nick Trost book you have and it is a wonderful book. I performed his Technicolor change in one of my early videos. Such a high impact wow effect. 👍😊👍😊👍👍😊👍🎄🎄🎄🤜🤛

[@EruditeMagic]

Glad to hear you like my list. 😃 What else is on your list?

[@andrecombrinck1454]

Wow, it is so difficult to narrow this down to just 5. I re-read so many books every year, so there will be either or "ors" in my selection. 5. The Magic Book- Harry Lorayne's awesome beginner book. There are some many excellent tricks in this book. 4. Art of Astonishment- Every time I read this I find somthing new. 3. Ted Lesley's Paramiracles. - I also have Bob Cassidy's books, but this is the one I usually go back to. I just like Ted's thinking. 2. Impossibilia/Smoke and Mirrors- John Bannon's masterpieces in my opinion because both of them contain more than just cards and that material is just fantastic. 1. Stars of Magic- I had a really hard time picking number 1. This could have gone to many books including The Books of Wonder, Carneycopia, The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, The Art of Close-up Magic, Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic or Tarbell. But in the end I chose Stars of Magic because I do so many things from this book. I still want to get the Regal books, but money is a bit tight at the moment.

[@EruditeMagic]

GREAT list! Interesting that I almost had Art of Astonishment on my list, but I couldn't narrow it down to which book of the 3. Ted Lesley's book fell just outside the top five, but I definitely read it more often than others

[@DanielMendoza-su3ei]

im surprised Strong Magic is not on the list! : )

[@EruditeMagic]

It's a good book, but I personally haven't read it that much 🤷🏻 Perhaps I should read it more 🤔

[@nancyanderson5320]

For me- Card College books.

[@EruditeMagic]

I understand. Realistically, I've probably read them as much as any of the books I referenced in this video. However, I don't feel it's a fair comparison since they are by definition reference books

[@davidfunvideos]

Where is showmanship for Magicians?

[@EruditeMagic]

It's a great book, but not sure how many times I've read it! 🤷🏻

[@zamplify]

It's actually pronounced eh ru dite

[@pyratemage]

Go BUCKEYES!

[@EruditeMagic]

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