Presto! : How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales (Paperback)

from GeoffHabiger

I wasn't sure what to expect for a book about dieting by a comedian magician. I love Penn & Teller, so I decided to give this a shot. Overall, I was entertained and intrigued by Penn's tale of how he managed to lose his weight. It offers an interesting look at one man's determination to improve h...

from DavidWineberg

It's Penn Jillette again, so you think – more debunking of fraudulent magic? Questioning God, perhaps? But no. This is a 300 page memoir of dieting. Took me by surprise. I would not have read it had I known. But Jillette pulls it off by simply being Penn Jillette. He is loud, obnoxious, rambuncti...

from Jeff

Told from the Point of view of a famous skeptic and debunker, Presto takes on the experience of behavior change in a unique self effacing tone uncommon to the self improvement genre. That said this is not a self-help book. As is disclaimed multiple times by the author no part of this should be t...

from Jeff

Told from the Point of view of a famous skeptic and debunker, Presto takes on the experience of behavior change in a unique self effacing tone uncommon to the self improvement genre. That said this is not a self-help book. As is disclaimed multiple times by the author no part of this should be t...