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By Jonathan Margolis, 400 pages, published Dec 12, 2013.
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0073U14F0/
AU: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0073U14F0/
Amazon's Description:
Jonathan Margolis's biography of Uri Geller, the controversial spoon-bending and mind-reading performer, was the first to examine dispassionately whether the former Israeli paratrooper is a talented magician or something altogether more mysterious – perhaps even an authentic paranormalist.
Reviews
"Superstitious atheists will find this book toxic. Jonathan Margolis clearly spooked himself writing it and I got an attack of the creeps one night just reading it." - Evening Standard
"Uri's ability to perform amazing feats of mental wizardry is known the world over…Uri is not a magician. He is using capabilities that we all have and can develop with exercise and practice." - Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and sixth man to walk on the moon
"I think Uri is a magician, but I don't particularly believe that he is using trickery. I believe there are psychic abilities. They don't accord with any science we have at the moment, but maybe some future science will back them up with theories." - Brian Josephson, Professor of Physics, University of Cambridge, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1973
"Uri bent a spoon for me. The first time he did, I thought there must be a trick. The second time I was stunned - completely, completely stunned and amazed. It just bent in my hand. I've never seen anything like it. It takes a lot to impress me. Uri Geller is for real and anyone who doesn't recognise that is either deluding himself, or he is a very sad person." - David Blaine
"Geller has bent my ring in the palm of my hand without ever touching it. Personally, I have no scientific explanation for the phenomenon." - Werner Von Braun
"I came to this book a rationalist and a skeptic. Yet, open-mindedness requires me to report that Jonathan Margolis' carefully researched, scrupulously detailed and even-handed exploration of Uri Geller's paranormal capacities suggests some of our current scientific understandings will need radical revision in the next century." - The Jewish Chronicle
"A brilliant book - nine out of ten." - Channel 4
"A fascinating, unaided, open-minded account of a great modern puzzle." - Mail on Sunday
"An even-handed and assiduously researched work… something close to a definitive assessment." - New Statesman
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Magician.
And not a very good one at that. His tricks aren't flashy enough, although that's because he's passing them off as telekinesis.
Here's how you bend spoons:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxSNuIx4m5k
When he was put to the test, the show hosts changed the spoons and provided their own instead of letting Uri bend the ones he brought with him. He was unable to do it, then said it doesn't always work.
As James Randi said, if you're using psychic energy to bend the spoon, you're doing it the hard way.
Here's Criss Angel testing Uri's psychic abilities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2ulGTQ9x8