 Hey everybody welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic book review Hey today, we're gonna look at drawing room deceptions from Guy Hollingworth. All right So why are we looking at books? books are awesome books are awesome and I think more of you are realizing just the awesomeness of books So I don't know how you store all your magic I don't know if you keep it all in a box or if you have it all on a shelf in your bedroom or If it's all lined up perfectly like all your DVDs are in a row But if you're a serious magician if you're you're gonna start doing this for real and you think man I want to be a magician when I grow up one day or I want to make my living doing this You should definitely start thinking about building a library. Okay building a resource library Where you can go to to find Just things you need at a moment's notice. You're not always gonna be able to go out to the internet Well, maybe you are in this day-to-day. I don't know but I think if you want to be taken seriously, there's a lot of Names and titles that you should definitely be starting to familiarize yourself with and this book is one of them All right, who's guy Hollingworth? Wow, if you don't know who guy Hollingworth is I don't know. Guy Hollingworth is the magician's magician. He is he's amazing He's an English card magician and he's known for his really unique style Like he's kind of self-taught and he really wasn't down with all the magicians that he currently saw As he was growing up and he kind of Really developed his own style and his his own style is mesmerizing to watch his torn and restored card Reformation if you can go out and find a video of him doing doing this trick It'll blow your mind and like seriously when it came out way back when It it blew our minds even further Even more when we saw it back then because back then it was just like how in the world is he doing that? One of the most beautiful torn and restored cards Ever ever created and it's in this book. All right, so drawing room deceptions. What's it about? It's a modern-day classic like this is a classic of card magic classic books So I mean if you want the classics on your shelf, you have to have this copy. You have to have this This is currently in its fifth print run. That is how in demand this book is okay So it's continuing to be printed over and over again any card magician knows this book and any serious card magician has this book like Sorry, it just he just does. There's so much material in this. It's not even funny And it's it's it all it's always example of guys work So whether it's close up whether it's parlor whether it's gambling routines. It's all in here. All right So what's inside? What's inside the table of contents chapter one says concerning cards that turn over? move position separate in color and generally perform amusing feats including waving the aces and oil in water chapter 2 is All about jacket magic. Okay, so you're gonna need a jacket for all of these tricks chapter 4 is some card cheating routines chapter 5 Is a really cool chapter and it's a couple of tricks on the card scam Chapter 6 has probably the most popular trick in the book Well second most popular trick in the book is the Cassandra quandary It's an impossible card to envelope routine and it's really cool There's also a triumph in chapter 6 and then the last chapter has Reformation the torn and restored trick that I told you about at the beginning probably one of the best T&Rs ever hardest one ever Definitely as well. Alright, so what's it cost? What does this book cost drawing room deceptions is about 45 dollars 45 dollars It is a hardback book Okay, hardback book and then you have this gold foil on the cover, which is really cool 300 pages so a thick book thick hardback book so definitely well worth your money and beautifully drawn Illustrations by guy guy Hallingworth did the illustration. So he's an artist, too So that's awesome And it really just looks and it feels like a vintage classic magic book and I think that's what guy was shooting for So not only is it a classic, but it looks like a classic as well. Alright, so what do I think? What do I think about drawing room deceptions? It's awesome always wanted on my shelf glad I have it The skill level needed for this is high. This is knuckle busting. Okay, so you're gonna need to know like gambling style moves like, you know undercuts Second deals gambler's cops things like that. You're gonna need to know that kind of stuff or you're gonna be lost If you're not like it this level, okay, you're gonna be reading a lot of these going I don't know how to do that. Well, this is these are advanced level tricks that require Mucho practice, but really the great thing about guy and the great thing about reading this is just his thinking process Just watching him break down the trick as he solves the solution and you See how he Arrives at the destination that arrives at the climax very original thinking very original work Love guy Hallingworth. If you don't know him get to know him become a fan of his This is a this is a classic. Alright, so that's everything I can say about drawing room deceptions from guy Hallingworth I purchased my book from penguin magic comm and if you would like to purchase yours, I would head there as well. Thanks. Bye