I had to read this book a whole lot, before I understood some of the tricks. It does not have a lot of illustrations, which really help. I also bought the magic of micah lasher and the klutz book of coin magic(i also have the magic book and klutz have good illustrations and good explanations) This book also has a section on cigarett tricks and for some of them you actually have to smoke them, which i don't ever want to do. It has a huge section on card tricks which I think are the main focus of the book, so if you love card tricks this is the book for you.