Sleight of Mind Nyrup & Harling Book
by Nyrup & Harling

This is a pretty near faultless book for anyone interested in suggestion and its use in 'mentalism' (psychological magical effects). It's packed with bits of useful information about human behaviour, especially your own, which as others have said here are just as useful for non-performers as performers. A warning though, the people-watching this promotes is very, very addictive, and it will have you think twice about every movement and facial expression you and everybody else makes! If I'd read this at the very start of my forays into hypnosis and NLP I could have saved myself a small fortune on other books. Though it was continually recommended to me by performing members of the magic fraternity, I have to admit that I was very skeptical of their take on it because of the words 'mind control' in the title, but I quickly became a convert after reading it. Despite the name, nothing could be less hyped or more down to earth.

What I've never quite understood is how Derren Brown can bring out his book 'Tricks of the Mind' a couple of years after Sleight of Mind and use so much of the latter's material? Take out three hundred or so pretty superfluous pages out of Derren Brown's 'Tricks of the Mind' and you have a lesser version of 'Sleight of Mind' - something I wished I'd known before forking out for Brown's title.

EVERY mentalist should have this and Banacheck's books on their 'must buy' list. Forget the useless double-talk in Knepper's 'Wonder Words', this is the real deal and should not be missed.