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Posted: Aug 12, 2003 12:22 am

Hideo Kato 0

I am now proofreading my translation of OUR MAGIC which I have published on my

web-site. As Mr.Maric decided to publish it in a bounded book form from Maric
Entertainment Inc, I am proofreading and re-writing it.

As I read it, I again deeply impressed by Maskelyn's writing. The book taught me most
Inner circle important things in magic. And the book completely changed my life. It was when I gave
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my translation to Mr.Maric. He was also strongly impressed by the book and praised my
effort of translation. He noticed he and I have the same passion for magic. So I am now
working for/with Mr.Maric.

Do you have such important book in your life which changed your life. It is not
neccessary to be a magic book.

Hideo Kato

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After publishing the book, we will have my lecture tours in many cities in Japan to
inform the importance of OUR MAGIC.
Posted: Aug 12, 2003 02:59 am
vwc06 0

Mr. Kato,

Since you said it doesn't have to be a magic book, I shall continue to say that
"Norwegian Wood" by Murakami Haruki changed my life. Murakami-san's writing has
shown me to expect the unexpected out of life and always be down-to-earth, ready to
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my two cents,
Vincent
Posted: Aug 12, 2003 07:48 am
Jonathan 0
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Of books important...

I spend alot of time wondering... feeling bemused, puzzled and looking for options.
There are several books that helped get me moving in new directions. Or parts of books
sometimes.

Eternal Order For example, chapter 5 of 'Brave New World' consists of a transcript of several
Ossining, NY conversations. Likewise the rst chapter of 'The Dosadi Experiment' introduces the
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reader to a place and people and prose style that invites the reader to inventory their
expectations and make room for the additional knowlege required to comprehend the
situation discussed. Perhaps the middle section of '1984' that almost explains the world
view of the 'ctional society' though stops just when the fundamental principle involved
is about to be desribed...

Books on the whole...

Italo Calvino's 'Invsible Cities'
Richard Bandler's 'Using Your Brain for a Change'
Neil Gaiman's "The Books of Magic"

Acuually MANY books come to mind as influential. And several more that are
collections of short stories.

Anyone else read the novella "Roadside Picnic" by the Strugatski brothers? or RUR or
the Philip K Dick short stories? or the last couple of short story collections by Bruce
Sterling? How about the cyberpunk collection "Mozart in Mirrorshades" ??

Off to Barnes & Noble for more ideas...

...to all the coins I've dropped here
Posted: Aug 12, 2003 08:22 am
landmark 0

An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavski

The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse

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The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast

On Becoming a Person by Carl Rogers

The Island by Athol Fugard and John Kani

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Believe it or not, I think all of the above have something to teach magicians as well as
being terric books.

landmark
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Posted: Aug 12, 2003 11:07 pm
Hideo Kato 0

Quote:

On 2003-08-12 09:22, landmark wrote:

Believe it or not, I think all of the above have something to
teach magicians as well as being terric books.
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This comment is welcome because the purpose I posted in this thread is to invite you to
read books other than trick books. Especially I wish you to read OUR MAGIC because, by
reading it, you will possibly know why you are a good magician or why you are not.

Hideo Kato
Posted: Aug 14, 2003 11:13 am
David de 0
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Here are just a few non-magic books, of the almost thousand books I have read, that
have had special signicance for me:

Being There -- Jerzy Kosinski

The Third Policeman -- Flann OBrien

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Sweden Against Nature (also translated as Against the Grain) -- J.K. Huysman
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The book of Laughter and Forgetting, Laughable Loves and The Unbearable Lightness of
Being -- Milan Kundera

Willard and His Bowling Trophies -- Richard Brautigan

Loves Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotheraphy -- Irvin D. Yalom

Down and Out in Paris and London -- George Orwell

If On a Winters Night a Traveller -- Italo Calvino

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert Pirsig

If This is a Man (also translated as Survival in Auschwitz) -- Primo Levi

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