Aaron, in case you ever feel like writing another book. Please write one completely on magic theory. There are so many books explaining moves and tricks and I’d like to see you release a book solely on magic theory, heck I don’t care if there isn’t even one trick in it. The reason is that I truly feel that you have a great understanding on what magic is and why it is important and well as great suggestions to performing better.

Also, I am also writing a book. It won’t be published or sold or anything but I’m writing a book about my magical experiences and some of my reputation building effects as well as techniques and to top it off my philosophy on magic. Sort of a magical diary, except for replace ‘diary’ with a less fruity word.

I suggest that every magician do it, have a magic diary or log because I’m looking back on it day by day and learning a lot about myself and how to improve my magic. As well as help me remember all the people I’ve touched with magic. Just a thought. Cheers.

Matt. G

the tricks themselves are quite unique, and are based around the moves learnt in the book; if you can’t do the moves, you can’t do the trick, making it a secret to any lay person that might get hold of the book.

the pictures in the book show what needs to happen and where your fingers need to be quite effectively.

even though i purchased the book last year, i am stilllgoing back to it for helpful tips and tricks, and advice on how to perform some of the tricks.

all together, the book is one of a kind, and it should be cherished and looked after rathe than just thrown on the shelf.

i think that a big well done should go out to Aaron Fisher, for creating such a memorable piece of magic.

I can say with full honesty that Aaron Fisher’s tretise on card magic does not fall into the former category.

Aaron wrote a marvelous book on magic and he wrote it in a way that won’t make you feel like your learning from a book, it’s the complete opposite, you actually feel like Aaron is right beside you teaching you all the moves, the psychological subtleties, and the theory on why it works.

It’s one thing to learn an effect or a move and a completely other thing to learn the theory behind the move. That is what Aaron teaches and that is why by reading, understanding, and practicing the book’s material will make you a better magician.

Many magicians throw their variation of a few tricks on paper and call it a book with the hopes of making a quick buck. Most, if not all of the time a magician will notice this and be disapointed and feel buyer’s remorse. If you spend even 5 minutes with the book you will notice that the book and it’s material is extremely high-quality and you’ll probably learn something in that short 5 minutes. You can tell that Aaron saw many magicians doing things wrongs and worked hard to find solutions to those problems. Aaron did not set out to make another run-of-the-mill magic book, he set out to build a train that runs on magic. This trains grows with every magician who jumps on and helps edge magic out of the tunnel it’s been in since it’s conception. Aaron has created a masterpiece.

I do not buy every single magic book or effect that comes out, I only own 5 books on magic, the rest I borrow. I set out to only buy the best books on magic and this book is one of my five.

Now, I’m aware the century has just begun but I believe that Aaron Fisher’s ‘The Paper Engine’ will be the ‘Expert at the Card Table’ of the 21st century.

If you’ve never read it, do yourself a favor, do your spectators a favor, and heck, if you are one of those kids who does magic on youtube then do magic a favor and be one of the first youtubers in the world to upload a respectable magic video.

Throughout the work, Fisher gives valuable insight on how to strengthen one’s magic, whatever it may be, by making it more effecient and reducing the tension inherent in many moves. The best example of this may be his pivotal work on the half pass, a move which many have presented covers for and tips on, yet none have turned into a truly natural, motionless action, until the Gravity Half Pass.

Fisher’s work on this and other moves gives a wonderful and inspirational example to any aspiring magician, in that it demonstrates that we as magicians have the ability to recognize problems in our magic, and provide elegant, natural solutions.

Additionally, Fisher, following in the mantra of Vernon, has found ways in his tricks to eliminate unnecessary moves and actions, which cloud the overall effect. One example of this is “Search and Destroy”, where he has removed literally every move from a plot which previously had consistently been filled with unnecessary actions. Thus, he succeeds in making his magic more practical, entertaining, and strong.

As a 16-year-old aspiring close-up magician, I consider Fisher’s book extremely refreshing, in that it has provided me not only with useable material and sleights, which I can add to my repertoire, but also with a message which continues to inspire me to critically look at my own magic, and realize that the use of unnatural, tension-filled magic is not inescapable.

With respect and thanks,

Cody Fisher

The Paper Engine truly is a fantastic book. You will find some difficult sleights to some of the simplest effects that will amaze magicians and laymen!

I actually created my first effect from that book, combining ideas from Aaron including : The Revolution change and a reversal from the routine Revolver. That effect is my first EVER published item and was in Magic Magazine. I can only thank Aaron for the great ideas he has and being kind enough to share them with us all.

This should tell you how great the book is. You will find new ways to visually change cards, visually reverse a deck of cards in the most magical manner, and many other routines that will fool your buddies and you will quickly add to your reportoire.

Some of my favorite items from the book include:

Revolver
The Nowhere pass
Bluff Replacement subtlety
The Illusion Control
Three Kings
Revolution No.9
and Search and Destroy

That is just some of my favorites and Im sure they will soon be yours.

Michael MUldoon