Jillette, Penn, and Teller - Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic

[oyceter]

Um. I suspect I would have liked this more if I'd actually been interested in learning how to do some magic tricks. Alas, I am not. Mostly I just want to know about stage magic and magic history and the like.

This book doesn't have much of that; most of the tricks here are very simple ones involving cards and writing on mirrors and etc.

Also, I suspect I disagree with Penn's politics, which makes the random opinion pieces in the book rather annoying, as I can't quite get enough background on why he thinks what he does to even argue with him in my head.

This is probably a good book if you do want to learn magic tricks; obviously, I was the wrong audience for it.

Comments

[tonapah.livejournal.com]

I read an interview with Penn Jillette once where he mentioned being an Objectivist, so that's the background on his politics. It's probably also why his opinions pieces were annoying. ;)

[oyceter]

I had to look up what Objectivism was... and it's Ayn Rand! No wonder I was annoyed.