Great Reads!
Many years ago, Ricky Jay had a TV special with the same name as his book, Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women. I was especially blown away by the Odic Force segment. I genuinely loved it. And it stuck in my mind for years.
I was talking about this show to a magician friend of mine couple of years ago, and he pulled out an historic book, The Autobiography of Lulu Hurst.
I borrowed it and it was an amazing read.
At the time, this was the only historic book that I ever read in the realm of magic, even though it is not a really magic book. The first half is a biography and the second half is methods.
I won't go into details here but if you have some free time, search our site for these other great hard to find Jorgenson titles : Henry Hardin's Lost Manuscript, The Medicine Show Manual Red Light Mystery, The Arandal Code-x, Sectrets of the Magnetic Girl & The New Gerogia Magnet Act. Search by title here.
Some of these titles date back to the mid 1800's, some are more current but all are not readily accessible.
Anyway, I am getting off track back to the subject at hand, Lulu Hurst.
In 2004 Barry Wiley author of The Georgia Wonder hit the stores. This book is fantastic. The first portion of the book is a reprint of The autobiography of Lulu Hurst. With new type set and crystal clear reprints of the original photographs. 414 page in all and covers everything on the Georgia Magnet Act.
I am still off track on where I was heading with this Blog.
The point I was really trying to make is that I don't really ever read historic books but rather tricks and methods, showmanship but not history.
I am currently reading two books at once. Don't ask me how that happened, it just did. On top of that, they are both historic books. Love'em them both so far.
One is Jim Steinmeyer's Hiding The Elephant
and the other is Gabe Fajuri's Laurant: Man of Many Mysteries
I started the Laurant book and I wanted to find the chapter in the Steinmeyer book on Pepper's Ghost for an independent reason. That was it, caught between two books at once.
We'll talk to you soon.
Pete
I was talking about this show to a magician friend of mine couple of years ago, and he pulled out an historic book, The Autobiography of Lulu Hurst.
I borrowed it and it was an amazing read.
At the time, this was the only historic book that I ever read in the realm of magic, even though it is not a really magic book. The first half is a biography and the second half is methods.
Right after I read it, we immediately began selling all the Tom Jorgenson publications. Three titles on the Georgia Magnet and several other fascinating things from years gone by. All informative and interesting.
I won't go into details here but if you have some free time, search our site for these other great hard to find Jorgenson titles : Henry Hardin's Lost Manuscript, The Medicine Show Manual Red Light Mystery, The Arandal Code-x, Sectrets of the Magnetic Girl & The New Gerogia Magnet Act. Search by title here.
Some of these titles date back to the mid 1800's, some are more current but all are not readily accessible.
Anyway, I am getting off track back to the subject at hand, Lulu Hurst.
In 2004 Barry Wiley author of The Georgia Wonder hit the stores. This book is fantastic. The first portion of the book is a reprint of The autobiography of Lulu Hurst. With new type set and crystal clear reprints of the original photographs. 414 page in all and covers everything on the Georgia Magnet Act.
I am still off track on where I was heading with this Blog.
The point I was really trying to make is that I don't really ever read historic books but rather tricks and methods, showmanship but not history.
I am currently reading two books at once. Don't ask me how that happened, it just did. On top of that, they are both historic books. Love'em them both so far.
One is Jim Steinmeyer's Hiding The Elephant
and the other is Gabe Fajuri's Laurant: Man of Many Mysteries
I started the Laurant book and I wanted to find the chapter in the Steinmeyer book on Pepper's Ghost for an independent reason. That was it, caught between two books at once.
We'll talk to you soon.
Pete
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