[Mr. Punch]

Derren Brown in his excellent book Tricks of the Mind comments on Photoreading pp. 65-8. Brown participated in a weekend course and is of course as the master illusionist he is very good at exposing scams. So he does with Photoreadning. But insight into trickery and illusion shouldn't be necessary to discover that the course "teaches" first grade material and sells itself solely on masquerading it in new fancy terms.

Brown asks the obvious at one point having listened to the trainer's explanations: "Everybody seemed happy with this process, and presumably with the idea of paying the £300 the trainer normally charged for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I put my hand up and asked, "Erm, I don't want to seem rude, and perhaps I'm missing something, but aren't you just explaining us how to look something up in a book?

I bought the course, trusting it on Pavlina's recommendation and I trudged through the whole thing. But as an avid reader with an University degree there is absolutely nothing in it but the usual hyperbole! Let's face it; in over 2 weeks no one in here has talked about Photoreading and before that it was nothing but this vague wishing; "maybe I kind of sort of knew where the answer to my question was.." Well, you should know, you have been previewing and reviewing and skimming and dipping and dancing for half an hour around this book.