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This is a book that I highly recommend if you want to do stack work. I do the Core all the time. Heavyweights is one I've always intended to do, but haven't yet. I would normally think that counting cards would get a little repetitive, but the kicker ending is great.

I have this book and haven’t visited in awhile. I will now revisit. thanks 🥰

Thanks for this timely review. Just two days ago I re-memorized the Tamariz stack but wasn't finding new things in his book I wanted to learn and develop (except for maybe Mnemonicosis...) So I've ordered this one directly from the author and look forward to working through it. As a teacher of mnemonics and a magician, it is interesting to me to try and inspire more magicians to see just how easy it is to commit a deck to memory. But... certain things I've seen and heard still discourage me from taking out ads in Genii just yet. I won't name any names, but at a convention a few years back, I asked a particular magician if he used mnemonics at all for his memdeck work. I got a long lecture about how rote learning is the only way and mnemonics are a waste of time, etc. I find this very sad, but not exclusive to magicians. It's in the language learning world a lot too. Part of the problem seems to me that people interpret the word "mnemonic" too specifically. Any memory technique is technically a mnemonic, including rote. In any case, we all know the magician who forgets participant names, and no one has to be that performer if they don't want to. And as far as I can tell, learning the Major System and developing it into what is called a 00-99 PAO is one of the best mental workouts out there. 52 of the 00-99 can readily go to a deck of cards, and be applied to a calendar so you remember your gigs and even has implications in language learning. Such as for when you want to perform in another language, which I have been very blessed to do. Secondly and finally, I feel from a decade of teaching and using memory techniques myself the biggest problem people have is that they choose vague, limp and thoroughly forgettable associations. If you base them on celebrities that you've spent dozens of hours with, people who are already animated and easy to mentally animate, it's usually pretty difficult to forget. Unless you let it lapse. Anyhow, to give a quick example anyone reading this will probably get a kick out of, the part with 8D and 5C is Max Maven and a dog I used to know named Lily. The logic here is that all numbered diamonds (except 10) are in the category of 30. 3 is M and 8 is for or V hence Maven. Having Max Maven who I've spent oodles of hours reading, watching and listening to interact with a dog I once knew in a Memory Palace based on a very familiar location is as memorable as it gets. Now, I know people get confused with why 10D is 40 all of a sudden and then feel that they need a system to remember the system. And this is why thinking of mnemonics a bit wider can be so useful. In any case, not all things are for everyone, but much more direct and simpler ways of using mnemonics do exist. Thanks again for the great review and can't wait for the book.

Love your in-depth reviews. Keep up the good work. ❤

My wife and I are going to a mystery weekend event in about a month. After watching your review, I was reminded that there a routine in this book called Sherlock...perfect! Last time we did one of these weekends, I ended up doing an impromptu show. Now I have one on theme! Time to start practicing...

Really good exciting review.Well done Jeff 👏.Thanks.

I’ve been eyeing this for awhile now, great review!

I see that Tannen's Magic Shop in New York has "In Order to Amaze" in stock.

I have a signed copy - but must pull it off my shelf and study it!

Somebody in the comments last week was asking what they should read after Card College. This strikes me as a great option.

Thank you very much for the review. It just may have sparked interest in an area I've not really delved into much as of yet.

14:05 looks like a beautiful book. Your show is inspiring to get started, but man I’m lazy. Lol. Maybe after I get back from Magifest. See you there in a few weeks.

Great review thanks.

This book sounds great! Just the concept of quartets I feel has lead me to a path that will make my Mem deck work better. All of a Kind being one of my favorites, it seems that will be useful, and one of the tricks in this book seems like a next level routine version of that one.

I performed The Heavyweight for the first time this week and it killed. I did it right after Sherlock, in which the spectator shuffles the deck, so it was a routine that masked the method. I got an email from Tannen's this week saying that both of Pit's books are back in stock. Both are great, but In Order to Amaze is really, really good. I now have three tricks from this book in my regular repertoire.

Sherlock is a crazy trick, so good

I cant stress enough how much i love this channel. Not only because of the wealth of information it gives, instead it is life changing. I see most of the information and learning techniques you share here can be applied not only to Magic but to any area of study in general. You are Amazing * 100000 :) A quick question; I am just starting with memdeck. I have seen the other video about memdeck beginner guide. I am wondering what if i memorize stebbins? :) I understand the difficult to follow books that are written for mnemonica or Aronson stack but other than that does it makes any difference rather than also having an additional advantage of having a memdeck + cyclic stack features?

This book is fantastic. As someone who is fairly new to memorized deck this book has been very helpful to me. The Core is one of my favorite routines as well. But my favorite item has to be the "quartets" concept.

A witty, funny book full of incredible magic. Really a fantastic contribution from a real master. I spent at least two years on this book (I translated it into Italian with the title Preparati a stupire, which is almost as good as the original one), and cannot recommend it highly enough.

Great video, great book! Do you have any suggestions for routines that put you into stack from a shuffled deck? I know Patrick Redford has Thought Master, and Euphoria by Adrian Guerra. Do you know any others off hand?

Card fictions is back, only available directly from Pit!!!

Really nice book and an awesome review 😊👍😊👍😊

It would be great to see you do a review on the Roy Walton books!

Can I do these tricks with Doug dyments stacks ?

thank you! is the book teaches his penn and teller routine?

Love your work. And I know you like the Cards. & TBH, what? 70 percent or more of all new publications and/or products is about pasteboard? But have you already, or is there a book out, how to make Card Trick Presentation interesting to the laymen? I know 6 plus years ago was a survey that said card tricks faded in memory unless there was something (like an object) connected to it. Anyway, just wondering. Thanks again. www.magicconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Survey.pdf