Magic Question - Top 5 EDC Book Tests

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[roncalhoun]

My favorite EDC book test. Is one I’ve used professionally for about 25 years.
Larry Becker’s Ultimate Flashback.
I use it close up and on stage.
Love it.

[pinballwizard]

Thanks David. My favourite is also 'Will To Read' . Off the back of that I purchased a complete book that uses the 'All about Eve' method. Not too difficult to memorize and always impressive.

[darrenhadden]

Super review David!🎉 Long word and flashback principal?? Love to learn about this. I love Vinny also. He is a master at taking an old trick and give it a new paint job and Presto 🎉

[Genethagenius]

I haven’t yet explored book tests really, but this video and the comment sections have given me some really good effects to check out. Thank you as always!

[Moviemaniac]

Gatsby is so good but the time machine from the same creator is even better for the Pegasus page add on

[brucet]

Always nice to see a list like this. Appreciate your efforts. Thank you

[RDRussell]

I hesitate to mention it because it seems to be sold out everywhere, but if you can get your hands on "What's Cooking" that's a pretty special book test. (You can find YouTube reviews on this one.) Originated from Ace Magic in the UK, but also once sold (apparently?) by Alakazam. It's a book test made up to look like a cook book. This means — unlike most book tests — you have extra elements in play. Not just any specific word, but also colors, recipes and their specific ingredients, photographs, and so on. As such, it is a multi-phase book test, ingeniously designed. The recipes are actual recipes, and thus this actually IS a cook book. It just so happens to also be an incredible book test with so many brilliant methods "baked" in.

[guest]

Hi David, excellent top 5 review. I am a book test collector and have all 5. All excellent. Thank you so much for all you do. Your friend David

[thecommonmagician]

I've got to say that the most portable (there's nothing to carry), and potentially impossible ("hey, I see you have a book there...") book test must be Marc Paul's "AAA Book Test". You reviewed it last year, but it also comes with one of Marc's Penguin Live lectures, which is the better value. I think some folks fear the method and tactic, but it's truly so strong that Marc performed it on live television back in the 90's on the Parkinson show. Magic Week YouTube channel has the full performance to watch, including his legendary Berglas Effect ACAAN that he addressed last year on a Vanishing Inc interview. Literally, any book, anywhere, any time. It's all about the presentation and interaction... so it's important to have personality and a strategy to long-play the revelation. It's a killer and I use it as often as I can. The trick often plays best when they pick a page with no words or a picture!

[liaonardo_me]

I love the book test, too. My favorite one is "Pi Book Test by Vincent Hedan" because digits have no language boundary.

[valmarsiglia]

I also highly recommend Harvey Berg's Final Exam (2 books) and Ne Plus Ultra (3 books). You can carry any one of the books around, each works as a standalone. What I like about these is that they look just like something you'd find in a college book store, they're all classic titles and are highly inspectable, no repeating pages or anything like that, and (my favorite part) you're not revealing individual words but rather giving impressions of what's on the page. For example: "I sense that this passage has to do with or is told from the point of view of one of the male characters... in fact, I think it's Walter. He seems to be preoccupied with or anxious over a visit he wants to make, I think to a woman with whom he has some sort of past, perhaps to try to reconcile or rekindle the flame... It feels to me like he's outside, and that the rainy weather underscores his inner turmoil." The effect can be repeated multiple times with different outcomes. Now, there is memory work involved, but it's all done so cleverly that for me it was an absolute joy to learn. And even someone very familiar with book tests would have to spend quite a long time with the book(s) to have any idea of what's going on. As far as I know, the principle involved is unique to these tests. Might well be the most clever book test out there (no offense, MOABT!).

[davidfillary]

Would be good to have a list of borrowed book test routines too

[nochannel]

What is the flashback and long word principle?

[MagicInventor]

I have a book test coming out in a few months.

[donpepe]

I really like Will to Read and Will to Read lite. But the new Revolution book test. A Study in Scarlet from Ellusionist is outstanding!!!! Have you done a review on it yet David? It is really new.

[keithculver]

There are as many book tests as there is wallets. But I love random happenings by false anchors. It is literally a tear apart book test, but I just use a single sheet similar to all about Eve

[mike]

What are your thoughts on the nightmare page by the 1914?

[comedyfunguy]

Thanks David. I love Celebrity Pressage. Also Chad Long's Spineless is great too.

[ourladyoflourdeschurchmp]

None of the book tests you mentioned are currently available on Penguin, except for Mystify.

[grgryl]

What are your thoughts on the Brian Brushwood Book Test?