![]() In this case (and in fact in the case of several forthcoming works), I feel compelled to mention that in some sense I might well be an inescapably biased observer. Infrequently the chips and have fallen elsewhere, which generally serves to reveal much more about the subject than about the reviewer. Most of the time those chips have fallen in good places, largely because my friends tend to do good work occasionally because my friends are gracious artists and colleagues. I have always tried to do so with honesty and integrity, risking the chips falling where they may. ![]() Magic being a small community, I have so often been called upon the review the work of my friends that I rarely trouble to mention it that reality virtually goes without saying, and it presents an ongoing challenge to a critic striving for fairness and objectivity. Wind’s professional repertoire adopt two or three such pieces and you will drive yourself toward matching standards that might well serve to raise the caliber of your work for the rest of your life. I daresay the majority of close-up magicians will readily improve their standard of work by adopting just one selection from Mr. And I anticipate several more such quality works soon on the way, which I will be reviewing in the coming months as they are released.Īnd now comes Asi Wind’s Repertoire, a book densely packed with breathtaking material, capable of transforming any close-up worker’s repertoire from a gathering of tricks into a program of miracle mysteries. Having reviewed close to 500 conjuring books over the past twenty years or thereabouts, I can readily say that these titles are at the top caliber of the literature, books that are and will remain worth reading and rereading for decades to come. While it’s true that print runs have in general been significantly reduced from what they were ten or twenty years ago-perhaps an indication that younger magicians are not reading books or magazines as much as their elder predecessors, preferring to rely on video as their primary resource-nevertheless, looking over my own admittedly select reviews in the past year, I have had the pleasure of reading books like Luis Piedrahita’s Coins and Other Fables, Woody Aragon’s Memorandum, and John Lovick’s Handsome Jack, Etc. ![]() Paraphrasing Mark Twain, it appears that rumors of the death of the magic book have been greatly exaggerated. “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
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