Some wonderful magic books I've got a lot out of: Derren Brown - Absolute Magic and Pure Effect Tommy Wonder - The Books of Wonder, Vols I & II. Books by Dar

Some wonderful magic books I've got a lot out of: Derren Brown - Absolute Magic and Pure Effect Tommy Wonder - The Books of Wonder, Vols I & II. Books by Dariel Fitzkee, e.g. Magic by Misdirection Berglas - The Berglas Effects (and his other books) Maybe they're too sophisticated for him, but I sure wish I'd had those when I was a kid! The Derren and Tommy books in particular are so thoughtful, inspiring, philosophical. You have to create your own magic effects - they show you how. The Berglas book puts 200+ (!) pages into explaining his 'Any Card At Any Number' effect in great detail..but it's more a complex of effects than a particular thing with a start and end...most of the time. There's a lot of Derren, TW and Berglas on youtube too.