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About [Books] Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic by Customers's review
surely an illusion
I think one of Blaine's greatest illusions is that this book is worth reading. I'm a big fan and was really disappointed. Did I expect to learn all the secrets of magic or how he does his illusions/tricks, no. But neither did I expect a magic history lesson, nor a biography on Houdini. When you break it all down, there is really only about 30% of the book actually pertains to his life, and what you get out of that is he loves and misses his mother, he jagged around in France for a while practicing magic, he's got some oddball friends (duh, they're magicians), network TV paid him a bunch of money to visit exotic places to film and, he planned well and trained hard of his NY stunts. I know all this, I thought I was getting about book about him, not how wonderful he thinks he is. Sit in the bookstore, read the middle couple chapters about him and save yourself the money. | 
