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| Mysterious Stranger by David Blaine |
David Blaine?s new book is outstanding. This review is short and to point. You need to buy the book and enjoy it.
I purchased the book four days ago and had a chance to read it during a trip to the west coast. It is a book to savor. You?ll want it to go on and on but like all good things, it must end. The book allows us inside David?s world-view and particularly his character. You learn what he is and what he is not.
He is, for one, a very good writer. He is not, the ?mysterious stranger? he portrays in his specials. He is a great lover of magic and magic history. He is not some one who takes himself too seriously.
David traces his love for magic back to his childhood and fittingly, to his enjoyment in watching his audiences react to the effects. It is that relationship between the person providing the magic and the audience responding to the show that seems to intrigue David the most. He learned magic the way we all did: Seeing a trick, reading books, practicing, and showing.
He performed whenever and wherever he had a chance but ironically he was not a street magician. In fact, he credits his work hopping tables at a restaurant as the start of his professional career. From that job, he learned to perform quickly, with very tight material and move on. He learned that his repertoire had to include new effects almost constantly but each trick had to be visual.
From his work in the restaurant, he received an…
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