This very popular book shows you how some mentalism tricks are performed through the use of additional hidden objects. Covers mind-reading, spiritual effects, etc... and making them LOOK REAL !! But a couple tricks are sort of outdated because the audience is becoming more demanding and intelligent and may be able to guess what exactly going on. For example, writing words in a special way and by "erasing" part of these words/numbers reveal a specific message.

Overall it is a worthy book considering that it is not expensive, easy-to-understand and the sort of book that the conjurer would not want you to know about.

This is an amazing look at how some "psychic" tricks such as telekinesis, mind-reading, etc. are done.

You can try some yourself... but practice and timing is crucial to make things "smooth".

With this book and 13 Steps to Mentalism you could start your own religion. -Diamond Jim Tyler

Shadow of a Bull is about a boy called Manolo whose father was a famous bullfighter (torero) from Arcangel, Spain. Like many children of today, he is expected to follow in his father's footsteps. As the story unfolds, it becomes evident that Manolo has a very difficult decision to make. In our opinion this is a book that we recommend reading as a group because it led to many meaningful discussions.

SHADOW OF A BULL is about a kid named manolo. Everybody wants manolo to be a bull fighter because his dad was the bravest man in the world. but he does not want to because he is afraid. At the end he becomes a doctor. I think that this book is great for kids and their parents to read together.

I thought that the book "Shadow of a Bull" was a very good book. I thought it was interesting, because it was about this kid named Manalo that was afraid of bulls, but he had to fight them anyways. Some parts were interesting, because you could see how he was training, and all of the hard work it takes to be a great bull fighter. All in all, I thought that this book was a good, and interesting book to read.
This book was about this kid nmed Manolo. He had to become a great bull fighter, because his dad was the best bull fighter in Spain, and everyone wanted Manolo to be just like His dad. He had to do a lot of training to become a great bull fighter, and he went to a lot of bull fights, so that he could study all of the moves that the good bull fighter made. He like the bull fights, and he thought that they were interesting, but he did not like the end of the bull fights. He did not like them, because they would have to kill the bulls. He went through all of this training, and he would have become a great bull fighter, until he decided that he did not want to be a bull fighter anymore. He wanted his friend Juan to take his place, and he wanted to become a docter. He wanted to become a docter, because if anything would have happened to Juan, he could have helped him.
I think that it would be a great book to read for people to read, because it was a very interesting book. I think that people that like interesting books, and sports books will like it the most, because that is what the story is about, bull fighting,(a sport) and it is very interesting. I think that people should read this book, because I thought it was a very good book, and because I think that other people will like the book as much as I did, and maybe even more than I did. I thought that it was a great book, and I think that people should read it, because it was a great book.

Matt

This book is interesting from a historical perspective but that is really all. What Lady Caroline Lamb needed was a damn good editor as Glenarvon is a long and turgid read. I doubt there would be any interest in this book now were it not for the fact that she wrote it as a roman a clef - a book with thinly disguised portraits of many of Regency London's celebrities - and of course primarily about her relationship with the great poet Byron.

Did I say her relationship? Well not quite. This is a highly Gothic rendition of their relationship. There was no attempt to present it as anything but fiction - but those in know tried to pick out the facts from the overlay of fictional story-telling. For instance a letter she used verbatim in here is said to have been written to her by Byron.

This edition has a marvellous introduction which puts the novel in context with the times and Lamb's life and helps us as readers understand the links between real life and fiction. But this is an uneasy novel, poorly paced, with a tendency to maudlin pathos and overwrought chest-beating. It is interspersed with sections of intentional humour - Lamb clearly had great talent - but much of it was for the over-dramatic. Its a pity she wasn't taken in hand by her editor then as there are the makings of a very good novel in amongst the pages of dross. Overall the the novel is very Gothic and really only of interest to those who have an interest in Byron or Lamb herself. Byron, is of course Glenarvon the anti-hero of the novel and Lady Caroline the poor victimised Calantha.

In short the novel is all about poor old Calantha who marries one man, but is seduced by another (Glenarvon) who also masquerades under another evil persona. Their are ruined castles galore, quivering breasts, breathless terror - and the Irish rebellion of the late 1790's makes a bit of showing as well.

Lamb wrote two more novels after this neither of which have been reprinted - they were both, it seems overwritten as well, but without the added advantage of dozens of personality portraits of real people to ensure the successful marketing of the book. . Glenarvon was written, Lamb claims, as an apology to Byron, but marked the end of her acceptability amongst the elite of London society. She had overstepped the limit of social acceptibility once too often.

One of the oddest things about all this is that although we know Lamb as the lover of Byron, the affair was of the briefest - hardly lasting more than four months in the summer of 1812. She became completely obsessed with him after that and he had no peace from her. He eventually left London just before this book was published and died overseas fighting for the Greek cause in 1824. Lamb died 4 years later in 1828. I wonder if we should have known much of her at all were it not for those brief three months?