 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a book review. Hey, today we're going to look at the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks from Gene Huggard. All right, so anybody who watches my channel knows that I really like the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks from Gene Huggard. This is probably my favorite magic book, card magic book of all time, probably the first card magic book I ever got and it's the book I go back to again and again and again. Recently I found out that this book that I've had forever and you know totally loved and spilled coffee and it's all faded and worn. Recently I found out that this book is actually available also as a hardback. So I purchased it as a hardback. Now why hardback? I think eventually what you're going to find is the books that you love, the books that you go back to again and again and again, you're going to want to get on hardback so that you have it on your shelf and it'll last. And the paperbacks are affordable. Yes, they are. Hardbacks are more expensive, that is true. I had to find this on eBay because it's harder to find in the stores but let me just say this about hardbacks. Number one, some of the books that you're looking for or some of the books that you're waiting for, they're only available on hardback. There is a ton of magic books that are only available as hardbacks. They will never be printed as paperbacks so you're going to be waiting forever. And so to get some of these books you're going to have to shell out the money to get a hardback book. Hardback books are better anyway, the spines are better, the binding is better, they're going to last you longer and that's really what you want from a book anyway because you're going back to magic books as a resource. Paperback books you read and then they you know it's great for fiction but not so much great for textbooks. Your magic books are textbooks and so they are an investment and so I was really happy to pick this up. Hey anyone who's not familiar with the encyclopedia of card tricks let me just tell you a little bit. This is a truly staggering collection. This book explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks, impromptu card tricks, spelling tricks, you do as I do tricks, tricks that use rough and smooth, tricks that use gluing cards together, calculation tricks, key card tricks, slick cards, double backs, reverse card, short cards, one way back design, pre-range packs, Bengali deck, many tekel decks, stripper decks, special, gaff cards, miscellaneous tricks, famous ones like everywhere in nowhere or the case of the four kings or card in the orange or the Buddha whispers or inseparable acers. There's a whole final chapter in this book about using the Nicola card system so that's really cool. In addition to that there's another chapter on technique that's going to explain all your important slights. You're going to go over the overhand shuffle, the riffle shuffle, the false palm, the palm, the simple pass, the double lift, the glide and the force. All of this book, this book was entirely based upon another collection that was put together by a gentleman named Dr. Wilhelm von Dussen and Glenn G. Gravitt. But that collection has been now revised by Gene Huggard and of course completely rewritten for a modern audience. So it's easily, this book is easily the finest single book of classic card tricks and the clear style I think makes instructions very easy to follow. So this is just an indispensable book for the professional or the amateur magician and it's a great resource I think for anyone who wants to delight their friends, delight children or become a professional card magician. All right, so that is my review for the encyclopedia of card tricks from Gene Huggard and it's also my personal opinion about why I think hardback books are important to purchase. I purchased mine from eBay but you can find this book at some of your favorite magic retailers. Thanks, bye.