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From a world of illusion comes a love of delusion

Advantages: Nice tricks to have in your top pocket
Disadvantages: Hypnotising

...doing some of his core tricks and skills. We start of with a basic coin and card trick, early on setting the parameters that slight of hand, subterfuge and distraction are skills you will need for later on. There are tips and lessons on everything from hypnotism and mind reading, to faking séances and pretending to talk to the dead. Derren has few nice things to say about people who claim to have special powers and charge people money in the process ...
...guys with the same ‘amazing’ results and no one would know the difference. Brown explains in detail how experienced police detectives can use various suggestive memory techniques to get witnesses ad villains alike to produce the statement results they want, SVA (Statement Validity Assement) the method used. If you are one of the above and not used to police questioning then this stuff is easy to fall for. One way is for the detective to recite what ...

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Review of Tricks of the Mind - Derren Brown

Take a trip to the Square and get more than just a pint of milk!

Advantages: exciting, photos, information, facts, price
Disadvantages: /

BBC Soap 'EastEnders' began back in February 1985, and then nobody knew just how successful it was going to be. Though it seems that it was a hit then and is still today, still going strong twenty four years after it first aired. The thing that surprises me about EastEnders though is its lack of merchandise that has become available. There have been a few videos released highlighting some of the exciting storylines, but other than that the memorabilia ...
...soap, 'Coronation Street', seems to have so much more available to buy. EastEnders just haven't seemed to step up to their level yet with merchandise. From about the age of twelve, I have always adored EastEnders, however around the time of its twentieth birthday, it could be said that I had a rather unhealthy obsession with the soap. I had only been collecting celebrity autographs for a few months but already had written to the entire present cast ...

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Review of Eastenders: 20 Years in Albert Square - Rupert Smith

Funny, there's no mention of McGiffin behaving badly!

Advantages: attractive, quite cheap,amusing, McGiffin
Disadvantages: /

...full of obsurd stories about celebrities across the globe. To be honest this usually wouldn't appeal to me, but I found myself buying a copy when it was released not too long ago. I'm a sucker for celebrity merchandising. The book, 'Celebrities Behaving Badly' is actually co-written, with Mark Leigh alongside McGiffin. Now I hadn't actually heard of Mark Leigh but doing a quick bit of researching I came to a conclusion that he is quite a popular ...
...are some amusing quotes from celebrities too, such as Paris Hilton: “What's Walmart? Do they sell, like wall stuff?”. With each page it just gets better. There are some unusual ones too, such as Nicole Richie throwing a party and refusing entrance to people if they weigh over 100lb...not only is that insulting and offencive, but the twat clearly doesn't understand the concept of BMI! Though on the whole this is a very pleasant and amusing book. The ...

Amy69 28.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Celebrities Behaving Badly - Mark Leigh, Carol McGiffin

1. INT. BOOK SHELF ROW ONE BOOK #10

Advantages: attractive, Piper, entertaining, worthwhile
Disadvantages: pricey

...in 2005 with our ninth Doctor portrayed by the fantastic Chris Eccleston, alongside companion Rose Tyler played by Billie Piper. Series two saw the tenth Doctor in the form of David Tennant, still alongside Piper, and later companions Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate). Now we are approaching the end of Tennant's reign with a regeneration into eleventh Doctor Matt Smith in a few months – a very sad episode it will be, ...
...from the first series of Doctor Who. It can be recognised amongst the other books by its attractive blue colour, a blended fuzzy pattern. Mounted on the front is a picture of Eccleston and Piper, bodies turned to one another to show the connection between the two. The Doctor is dressed in black, complete with his leather jacket, and Rose in her denim jacket and jeans. Just looking at this shows straight away how much Rose changed when Tennant came ...

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Review of Doctor Who: Shooting Scripts - BBC Books

The Life Of Motley Crue

Advantages: Full colour pictures and extroadinary detail of the band's history
Disadvantages: Theres still more yet to unfold from their career of today.

...of memoires and expiriences of the infamous rock band Motley Crue have undertaken in their journey to worldwide stardom. With an extreme amount of detail into every aspect of each individual band member's lives. Each chapter has the member's own view and verdict of the exprience, explaining how there life of sex, drugs and rock and roll almost cost them career's, their families and even their lives. With repercussions and near death expirences, this ...
...band and all the decandence that has left you wondering how it happened. With Nikki Sixx's heroin overdoses in full detail and Vince Neil's manslaughter conviction that killed rockstar and great friend of the band, "Razzle" from Hanoi Rocks including many more. I recommend this book to any diehard fan, it will leave you breathless and wanting more. ...

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Review of The Dirt - Motley Crue Autobiography - Neil Strauss