Taylor, Sean : MindStorms ©2008 Sean Taylor Hardcover, no dj, 219 pages Available as an eBook from Lybrary.com

Image courtesy Don's Magic and Books

Comments: More than 20 routines from Sean's working repertoire and also details his feelings on the performance and presentation of mentalism.

Contents (courtesy Stephane Labbe & Book ToC):

7 Foreword (Richard Webster)
9 Preface

13 Chapter I Crossing Over: the move from magic to mentalism
15 Introduction
16 Performance
29 The Business of Mentalism
34 General Musings

42 Chapter II The Pro-Envelope: Perhaps the easiest and most versatile gimmicked envelope
45 Introduction
51 Fruition: Multiple Outs with fruits
55 Outside the Square: Magic Square test
59 Survivor - Case of People Power: You predict the last man standing in a live version of the popular TV show

67 Chapter III The Classics
69 Persuasive Banknite: Sean's opening effect for years. Finally 'Banknight' makes sense
79 The BookMaster The Sean Taylor Booktest: The Any Book, Any Page booktest system. No memory work, no forcing and no pumping
93 Anchor Ahoy - The Tossed Out Deck: Possibly the most convincing version of the David Hoy Tossed Out Deck yet
107 News of the World - The Newspaper Test: A newspaper test where the entire audience helps to select a single word from dozens of newspapers
119 The Throne Room - The Chair Prediction: Sean's approach to the classic chair test

131 Chapter IV Stage Mentalism
133 Pineapple Surprise: Sean's marketed comedy cabaret effect with new work for the mentalist
147 Colossal Card Memory: Memorise an entire deck of giant cards, bizarrely with no memory work
153 The Puzzle of the Puzzle: Sean's take on The Mona Lisa puzzle mystery

163 Chapter V Parlour Mentalism
165 Grandma's Purse: Finger rings borrowed and locked onto a combinaison Padlock
173 Mixed Emotions: Experiment in decision making with emotions
179 Time for Business: Time on watch match the time choose by spectator
187 Mind Change: A unique handling for Kurotsuke with borrowed coins

193 Chapter VI. The Symbology Deck: Sean's ESP Deck creation - 13 symbols, 4 colors
195 Introduction
203 Triple Coincidence
207 The Paddo Stack
211 Symbology Wow
215 Symbology Shape Shifter

219 Epilogue