Second Thoughts - Memoirs of a Mindreader by Richard Osterlind

This isn’t a book about tricks, performance tips, or the philosophy of magic it’s a book of stories.

For more than fifty years, Richard has traveled the world performing mentalism, and along the way, countless strange, hilarious, and sometimes dangerous things have happened to him. The most memorable and most entertaining of those experiences are collected here in these pages.

Second Thoughts – Memoirs of a Mind Reader is meant purely to entertain and delight. Whether it’s the time Richard almost found himself stranded in Beijing, narrowly escaped disaster in Monte Carlo, or nearly knocked himself out on stage in Bermuda, he can now look back on those moments with laughter and share them with you. Having always enjoyed reading about the adventures of other magicians, Richard hopes you’ll take the same pleasure in reading about his. If you know him personally or even just from his videos you’ll have no trouble picturing him wriggling his way out of these precarious predicaments.

Some of these tales may sound too unbelievable to be true, but Richard assures you every word happened exactly as described. There’s been no embellishment or “sprucing up.” So when he recounts driving a right-hand-drive car while blindfolded in Okinawa, with terrified Japanese producers screaming beside him, that’s precisely what took place!

Richard’s goal in writing this book is simple: to give you a fun, engaging, novel-like reading experience filled with humour, suspense, and a touch of the extraordinary. So sit back, relax, and enjoy these incredible true tales from a life spent inside the fascinating world of mentalism.