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Summary: Great Gift for your reader friend who thinks a lot.
Review: I bought this for a friend of mine for his birthday and couldn't help but thumb through it myself before wrapping it. Found it full price at a Shambhala bookstore in Chicago and felt it was worth the price. It's a bargain here. Lots of clever word play in the booklet- a number of palindromes that I'd never heard before. Great illusions and clever postcards. Some brilliant effects are achieved through light and playing with human perception. Each piece could stand alone as a piece of art, and there are a lot of pieces in this little box. While it is not "technically" a book, I recommend it strongly as a gift for that friend that reads and thinks a lot but you don't know what book to pick for him or her. It's relatively obscure right now, and makes a truly unique gift. Don't buy it for yourself, but be sure to check it out before you wrap it. Remember to wash your hands first.
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Summary: Great Gift for your reader friend who thinks a lot.
Review: I bought this for a friend of mine for his birthday and couldn't help but thumb through it myself before wrapping it. Found it full price at a Shambhala bookstore in Chicago and felt it was worth the price. It's a bargain here. Lots of clever word play in the booklet- a number of palindromes that I'd never heard before. Great illusions and clever postcards. Some brilliant effects are achieved through light and playing with human perception. Each piece could stand alone as a piece of art, and there are a lot of pieces in this little box. While it is not "technically" a book, I recommend it strongly as a gift for that friend that reads and thinks a lot but you don't know what book to pick for him or her. It's relatively obscure right now, and makes a truly unique gift. Don't buy it for yourself, but be sure to check it out before you wrap it. Remember to wash your hands first.
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Summary: Not quite what I expected
Review: Unfortunatly, I was really anticipating some clever mind tricks. The kind that really makes you think..."Wow!!!" As it turns out, many of these illusions are tricks that I remember encountering when I was in grade school. For example, staring at a black silouhette for several seconds burns a "ghosted" image in your eyes. So if you then stare at a white wall directly after, you'll see the same image. Tricks such as that were great when I was younger. And, true, it was nice to see these forgotten illusions resurface. I suppose I was just looking for something a little more novel. Some of the other illusions include finding hidden pictures within a picture. Or an image that becomes another image when flipped upside down (see the cover). All of these were fun...but at the most I gave each "gag" only 15-30 seconds of my time. There was one redemptive illusion that merited this set a rating of 3 stars - the ones that require holding an image up to light. That was very entertaining!!!
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Summary: Not quite what I expected
Review: Unfortunatly, I was really anticipating some clever mind tricks. The kind that really makes you think..."Wow!!!" As it turns out, many of these illusions are tricks that I remember encountering when I was in grade school. For example, staring at a black silouhette for several seconds burns a "ghosted" image in your eyes. So if you then stare at a white wall directly after, you'll see the same image. Tricks such as that were great when I was younger. And, true, it was nice to see these forgotten illusions resurface. I suppose I was just looking for something a little more novel. Some of the other illusions include finding hidden pictures within a picture. Or an image that becomes another image when flipped upside down (see the cover). All of these were fun...but at the most I gave each "gag" only 15-30 seconds of my time. There was one redemptive illusion that merited this set a rating of 3 stars - the ones that require holding an image up to light. That was very entertaining!!!
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