Penn & teller's how to play in traffic 
asked by sandi on November 22, 2006 8:05 AM
While Star Trek fans, role-playing game fans, and even comic book fans eventually find each other and develop something like social groups, teenage magicians are, due to the rarity of their particular geek kink, more likely to remain socially retarded than any other group. That isolation and talent for magic allowed Penn & Teller a great deal of time to devote to revenge, mayhem, and making others look foolish. Now they share their techniques, as well as the wisdom one gains from acquiring happiness only after being ostracized and ridiculed, in Penn & Teller's How to Play in Traffic. A mixture of tricks you can do in hotel rooms, cars, and planes, some ill-advised methods for screwing with the minds of airport security personnel, and a series of memoirs of the unusual people they've met on their B-venue journeys around the world, How to Play in Traffic is not only funny (as one would expect from Penn & Teller) but also oddly insightful.
Reviews
I wont repeat what has already been said by other here on the rating page, but this book has more than just hours of entertainment lying within its pages. I purchsed this book when it first came out, which was YEARS ago, and I still read it whenever I need a good laugh, or when I am waiting for their show BULSH*T to come on. Definitely my favorite out of the 3 books.
reviewed by goonball on November 27, 2006 5:23 AM
Penn & Teller, the self-proclamed "bad boys of magic" and ripoff artistes come through again. This is a very funny book of travel stories plus antics that you, yourself can do, while on the road. Tricks include making the Virgin Mary appear in any photograph, doctoring the flight safety card, how to stop a shaken pop can from exploding in your face and make another one explode in someone else's instead, and how to make someone pick a card which is engraved on an actual cenotaph. Lots of mean fun to be had.
reviewed by h2o on November 27, 2006 3:26 PM
