Magic reviews by Thomas Henkel

To start with I'm a great fan of rune klan and his magic since his video three pieces of silver". The reason rate this book so low is not because of the material - which is excellent and deserves all five stars possible - but the insufficient written explanations.
For example, the groundbreaking technique of rune's »falling retention« aka »viking vanish«, explained on page 38-39, lacks important details. And especially the two variations of the »viking vanish«, namely as a vanish of both of two coins without the help of the other hand (page 89-90) and as a click pass (page 93) retaining one of two coins in the other hand are in fact not explained at all. To understand the »falling retention« aka »viking vanish« and its two possible variations sufficiently and correctly you have to watch the video resp. DVD »three pieces of siver«.
Another example. I would have not understood the description of the »sleeve slide« on pages 111-112 of the book (for example, figure 6 does not show whether the arm is pronated or supinated) if I had not known the equivalent technique from Shoot Ogawa's trick »Where Did the Coins Go?«, described in "Genii", December 2003, pages 86-89. Shoot Ogawa describes there on page 89 in fact the same technique as »sleeve slide« (with a variation and some additional details). I don't know who was first with this technique because I couldn't find corresponding credits or references.
So, to summarize, the material in "rune's world" is excellent - but without the "three pieces of silver" DVD you will not get (full) benefit of rune's »falling retention« aka »viking vanish« and its superb variations.