Alas Chris & Jones
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Alas Chris & Jones packs nearly 90 effects and numerous essays on everything from card magic to coin magic, mentalism, and other fun ideas that fall into the "something different category", into one amazing hardcover book.
Friends and collaborators for nearly 20 years, magicians Chris Congreave and Gary Jones have released dozens of effects that can be found in the repertoires of countless professional magicians. Alas Chris & Jones features their best work.
16 brand-new effects join more than 70 hand-selected favorites from previously-published works. This is all accompanied by numerous thought-provoking essays on the art of performing close-up magic and using misdirection.
Just a so Wonderfull book for workers. The material is practicle and the explication are short and clear. It’s the kind of book which is beautiful on your living-room but also the kind you never finish to read it again and again to find some inspiration. I will not do the routines like there are descrided but they feed my brain. It is what I expert from a magic book. You can surely do what is written and have some fantastic réactions. But chut…. Keep it for yourself.
I like this book, I knew nothing about Chis or Jones, but I bought this book anyway, and boy I am glad I did, there is some wonderful material in here, with some new moves I newer heard about. there are some standard trick in here, Like card to pocket, but the methods are quite unique, I am only part way into to it, because I keep coming back to read what I just read, I like the tricks and I like the methods, some are very subtle and some I scratch my head, they seems to simple but they just might work. if your into card magic, and I have read a lot of card books . These two gentlemen offer a unique approach, and they both come up with some interesting solutions, to some standard trick, which are wonderful, but I really like the new trick that I never seen or read about before,
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