The Royal Road to Card Magic Kindle Edition

The information presented in "The Royal Road to Card Magic" is very good, and, if followed as intended, should provide an excellent set of skills necessary for effective performance of card magic. The writing style is dated, however, which makes the book less enjoyable to read than you may wish. Worse, though, is the poor conversion to a digital book. Often words are misspelled, such as the frequently-occurring "fight hand" instead of "right hand." There are several places in the book where a sentence, paragraph or portion of a paragraph is out of sequence on a page, so it takes some careful reading and deductive reasoning to determine what the authors actually wrote. This can get very frustrating when you are trying to understand a complex series of instructions which have been jumbled in the digitization process. Does no one edit or proof-read these digital books before they are published?

Highly recommend. The number one go to book for learning card magic technique. If followed in order, one will have enough material to buld an impressive routine at the end of the book, though Each section teaches technique then tricks with those learned techniques to apply and lock that learned technique in to memory for future tricks.There's a reason this book is the number one mentioned book for learning card magic. The material within its pages will do one well as you progress. The key with this book as well as any other is Practice. But even though this was written in the 50's it is still THE BEST starting point to learn.Get this book, you will not regret it.

Do not buy the kindle version, only buy the dover edition. Read it from cover to cover and you will have gone from laymen to practicing magician at an incredible pace. It's a study guide, or a text book, for magic, you don't go to it looking for a single trick, you learn everything you can. After you read this buy Expert Card Technique (not expert at the card table) also only get the dover edition. The double lift in this book isn't very good, and some of the other methods are a bit antiquated as well, but practice them anyhow and learn the proper versions from expert card technique. You will be able to perform a mind blowing effect within 15 pages, and you will have acquired a life long essential within 5.

The book itself is amazing, the issue is that the kindle version has many many spelling errors. Example: Often the book will say fight hand instead of right hand. This is exceptionally irritating when you are trying to read a book with new terminology and you cannot tell if you are not understanding a new term or it is just a spelling error.

Ah such high hopes I had when I bought this book for Kindle. It's a great book, but whoever made it for Kindle was incredibly lazy. The illustrations are near impossible to see, there are a bunch of typos, and in some places the text just starts and stops at random intervals. Please do yourself a favor and don't buy the Kindle edition, your frustration will be boundless

Bought this for my nephew who is really into magic. He loved it. I can't say how good the magic in the book really is, but I looked at a bunch of reviews by pro magicians (as far as I can tell they were), and this book was among the various magic books they recommended. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 since I can't verify myself the quality. But as I said, my nephew loved it! That's good enough for me.

First of all, the Dover Edition and the original edition of this book are great. Their positive reviews are accurate.This review is about the incredibly poor quality edition produced by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Their's is a very low quality, print-on-demand, version of the book which has two inch black margins, pixelated illustrations, and lacks substantial portions of the text. Presumably, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform is one of those companies that exploits the easy availability of free texts to sell print-on-demand versions with no quality control. Also, their edition is almost twice as expensive as the much higher quality Dover one. As far as I can tell, their's is listed first because they lie about the publication date and exploit some sort of searching bug in Amazon. This is a dishonest and opportunistic way to sell overpriced, lower quality, goods online.Don't waste your money on the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform edition, buy the Dover Edition instead:  The Royal Road to Card Magic

This book was highly recommended to me by a magician, who had it highly recommended to him by other magicians. If there's one book to get on card magic, this is it. If you're like me, you'll start getting all kinds of ideas for your own tricks by the time you finish the first chapter, and that just covers the basics. There's a reason this book is so highly praised.As a companion, look into the DVD sets by the same name.

But i leave it only 2 stars as this version appears to be a photo-copy of the original book, which is very old indeed.Yes, it was an official book (not a counterfeit) and contained the same as the original but the copying re-print process leaves grainy looking text and pictures. Am i too picky? The content is there. Plus its bigger than the earlier additions.summary-If you still want a copy of this book better to have it in this condition than not at all.

The content is excellent. Anyone who can master the key techniques introduced here is well on the way to becoming an accomplished performer. The book is detailed and thorough. It seems to me to be all the more a pity that the explanations are not clearer and more simply expressed. The author’s dexterity with cards does not extend to words, alas. The drawings are largely redundant, certainly not clarifying the words. Readers also need to be aware that all here depends on sleight of hand, when there are of course some marvellous tricks that involve deception of quite different kinds. For anyone who has the persistence and determination to penetrate to Hugard’s and Braue’s meaning and to put in the many hours of practice required to master the skills, they will acquire impressive expertise, but a beginner is likely to become quickly discouraged. For those well on the road to proficiency this book has much to offer and probably repays the struggle with less than transparent elucidation of principles.

I was given a copy of this book in 1985 by a magician called Graham Reed who was a family friend. I had been performing magic at that point for 6 years. The book is an encyclopedia of basic and advanced card magic. Each chapter introduces a new sleight and then it gives you a number of card magic effects to use what you have just learned. The language used is quite complex and old, but if you can understand what they are talking about, there is no better book to introduce card magic to the beginner.

Very thorough and easy to pick up. This is THE card magic tutor YOU NEED! I'm a complete beginner and within a month I can already do a man shuffle control, false shuffles, etc.Most magicians will tell you, this is the card magicians BIBLE.Buy it, study well and become a student of the art of magic. You will be rewarded! Good luck!

This is about as good a book as you could hope for on card magic. It's written by somebody who not only explains the tricks, but how to "perform" them. Lots of tips about how to keep your patter amusing, and keeping the audience entertained.My major problem with the book though is that slight of hand is very hard to explain in text. You really need to see it in action in order to be able to emulate it. I'm sorry, but the diagrams (for me) are quite hard to fathom.But this is definitely worth a read. It's got some cracking card tricks in here, and I definitely intend to try a few out on my mates.