In an age where some ebooks sell for hundreds of dollars - this one will set you back around $60. He'll throw off a gem hidden within a comment or two and then wait to see who was paying attention.
I've learned that some of the most useful things he has to share are delivered in an offhanded way. But that means it's very much like sitting and talking with Bob. It's well written and has an engaging style. It is, bar none, one of the very finest works on mentalism anywhere. If you want to sit quietly and listen to one of the unquestioned masters of mentalism share some mind blowing, career creating material - you need this book. If you've been performing mentalism for years - you need this book. What am I saying? If you're just getting started in mentalism you need this book. There's too much in this book to detail here. You get the brilliant Fundamentals - which really needs to be required reading for anyone considering mentalism. Both are worth the price of the book alone. Cassidy knows what he's talking about and it shows in chapters like "Working It" and "Staging It" - both about the presentation of mentalism. But you ALSO get some of the most precise thinking on mentalism anywhere. What does that mean? You get many of the classic routines Bob Cassidy is known for like Fourth Dimensional Telepathy and an absolute classic discussion of Q and A. There are over 400 pages in this masterwork - and it's classic Cassidy. Some copies will be purchased by collectors and carefully mummified in airtight shrink wrappings to insure their future value should the author become famous, infamous or dead. I'm telling you this because at the end of each day, I'd sit down with this book and read something wonderful. Fundamentals 2 Preface Eventually this book will appear in bound form. MindVention runs on great teaching, sleep deprivation and good friends. I'd prepaid in advance and, as Jheff was just finishing his set-up in the dealer room, I had my copy. I'd decided to read it on the airplane, because I knew "The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy, Volume 2: Fundamentals" was going to debut at MindVention (where Cassidy got a lifetime achievement award, by the way.) I felt overwhelmed.and genuinely grateful. As I finished it, I clearly remember sitting quietly, looking out the window and feeling like that guy in the old Memorex ads - the one who is sitting in an easy chair in front of a speaker with his hair getting blown back by the power of the sound.
The most recent re-reading took place on an airplane to Vegas for MindVention. I've been through that book five times since and each time I understand more. That changed with each subsequent reading. I was fairly new to mentalism at the time and frankly, I lacked the performing chops to really grasp what I was reading. When I initially read the first volume of "The Artful Mentalism of Bob Cassidy" - I admit that I didn't really understand it.
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