Mysterious Stranger: A Book of Magic | 
 enlarge | Author: David Blaine
Publisher: Villard
Category: Book
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 675784
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0375505733
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.8
EAN: 9780375505737
ASIN: 0375505733
Publication Date: October 29, 2002
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Product Description
Blaine’s Challenge!
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A never-before-attempted challenge to readers everywhere!
WIN $100,000.00
Hidden throughout the volume now in front of you are secret little signals, clues, and codes that,
once understood and deciphered, will lead to the discovery of a
Treasure!!
Which has been hidden somewhere within the confines of the continental United States of America.
Where is it? Who Will find it?
We Can’t Say!
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This challenge has been created and sponsored by the world’s greatest mystifier . . .
DAVID BLAINE
who was
Buried Alive
For Seven Days and Seven Nights.
The one and same who became
the world’s ONLY LIVING ICE CUBE in world-famous Times Square
and who . . .
stood as still as a statue
10 stories above Manhattan
only to
leap to his life below.
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The book in your hands now
Reveals
Some of David Blaine’s most closely guarded SECRETS. Such as
WHO IS HE?
WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
HOW DOES HE DO IT?
The reader will also
LEARN a multitude of inside SECRETS with which he or she too can mystify anyone.
THE MYSTERIOUS MR. BLAINE
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN RECORDED HISTORY
WILL READ YOUR THOUGHTS THROUGH THE WRITTEN WORD
“A latter-day Houdini.” —The New York Times
“The hottest name in magic.”— USA Today
HIS SECRETS WILL BECOME YOURS
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| Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...
 This book is amazing October 25, 2008
This book is a mind-blower. Open it anywhere and start reading (which is how I read a lot, I'm pretty ADD) and you'll have a hard time putting it down. Each time I open the book, I end up sitting there with my jaw dropping open, and saying "Holy @#$%&*! Listen to this!", a lot. Blaine talks about magic in history, about the most astounding magicians and their lives, about the dedication it takes to do this. He talks about his own life, and his travels and some really bizarre stuff he's seen and done. After seeing footage of him on the street, I had come to the conclusion that he was from another planet. Evidently he's not really magic or non-human. One thing I'm getting out of this book is what an extraordinary amount of dedication and passion magicians have, and just how many thousands of hours it takes them to get this good. This book is really fascinating. Plus, who knew the guy could write so well, too?
 Geared more toward young adult fans January 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was ok. I felt it was really written for young fans who might want to follow his footsteps. There is a bit of history here, as if to show Blaine is respectful of the past masters and not cocky. Not completely dull, I remember he does give a least one simple trick as a bone, but not extremly compelling - perhaps that is part of the point, the craft is not all glamour and is laden with repetitive training & hard work. Try to get it at the public library unless you are a fanatic about this guy.
Amazing book,this guy is awsome September 24, 2007
super interesting book, nice jurney in David Blaine mind,and his magik, he is defenatly special
Great Book August 28, 2007
Very cool book, a good buy at a great price
David Blaine is very interesting
Interesting August 15, 2007
Excellent book, highly recommended. A mix of magic history, biography and tricks. Won't be dissapointed.
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