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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists |  | Author: Neil Strauss
Publisher: It Books
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Media: Imitation Leather
Edition: 1
Pages: 452
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0060554738
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7447092
EAN: 9780060554736
ASIN: 0060554738
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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| • | Imitation Leather: 452 pages | | • | Publisher: It Books; 1 edition (September 6, 2005) | | • | Language: English | | • | ISBN-10: 0060554738 ,ISBN-13: 978-0060554736 |
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This item is an Imitation leather softcover book in very good condition there is no dustcover or box for this book. Copyright 2005. Written by Neil Strauss.
Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant--complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss's life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America's most suave gents--including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery.
will affect different readers in different ways, depending on their degree of cynicism: some will be awed by Strauss's ménage-à-trois snowball scene, while others will suspect it was cribbed from a third-rate porno Strauss watched in his pre-macking days.When his story begins Strauss is, well, a Neil: an unconfident, self-described AFC (average frustrated chump). He is also, it should be noted, a well-known rock critic who penned porn star Jenna Jameson's autobiography, leaving one wondering just how pathetic women really found him. After paying $500 to join a workshop for aspiring PUAs (pick-up artists) led by a magician named Mystery at Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel, Strauss becomes addicted to pick-up technique.
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Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant--complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss's life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America's most suave gents--including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery. Mystery is an aspiring Toronto magician who charges $2,250 for a weekend pickup workshop. He is not much to look at: a cross between a vampire and a computer geek. But by using high-powered marketing techniques he's turned seduction into an effortless craft--even inventing his own vocabulary. His technique sounds like a car salesman's tip sheet: his main rule is FMAC--find, meet, attract, close. He employs the "three-second rule"--always approach a woman within three seconds of first seeing her in order to avoid getting shy. Other tricks: Intrigue a beautiful woman by pretending to be unaffected by her charm; also, never hit on a woman right away. Start with a disarming, innocent remark, like "Do you think magic spells work?" or "Oh my god, did you see those two girls fighting outside?" And finally, the most important characteristic of the pickup artist--smile. After two years, Strauss ends up becoming almost as successful as Mystery, but he comes to an important realization. His techniques were actually off-putting to the woman he ended up falling in love with. And they never prepared him for actually having a relationship. After a while, he ran out of one-liners and had to have a real conversation. Still, The Game is a great read that may help some AFCs come out of their shells. --Alex Roslin
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 I Was Seduced! July 20, 2010
MuskratFajita (Kalamazoo, MI USA)
Quiet your internal debate about whether or not it's moral to seduce innocent women with geek engineered routines and dime store psychology. Cast aside your objection that this book is not a money-back-guaranteed do-it-yourself guide to making yourself irresistible to every woman that happens to glance in your direction. And don't spend your time trying to figure out whether all of the tales are true or what slice of the pie is exaggerated. None of that matters!
What Neil Strauss has penned is quite simply one of the most engaging and entertaining books I have read in a long time. Conjuring up some of the imagery of Chuck Palinick's pop-culture juggernaught Fight Club (a character who calls himself Tyler Durden, an attempt of like-minded individuals to join together named Project Hollywood, and even a female foil - Katya instead of Marla) and mixed with a little bit of the Matrix (people living in an alternate reality, the difference between knowing the path and walking the pat), Strauss' writing is succienct, slick, and expressive. You quickly get the feeling that he uses just enough words to express his idea and not a single word more. The rhythm of his writing is hypnotic yet uptempo and there was hardly a chapter's end that didn't propel me headlong into the next.
Beyond Strauss' writing acumen, you have a cast of characters that start off as sub-normal misfits and by the end are transformed into surreal, self-styled demagogues, bowing at alters to themselves. However, the transformation is gradual. Strauss does an amazing job of drawing you into his hyper-sexual Wonderland, creating real, dynamic multi-dimensional characters from people that you might otherwise not like and making them likable. As the protagonist, you have an anti-hero who transforms himself into a hero, but for the wrong reasons; his mentor, a tall, skinny, talented wannabe magician with serious intimacy issues and suicidal tendencies; the antagonist, a squirrelly former friend who is a master manipulator; and the love interest, the only woman whom our protagonist cannot charm with his superpowers. And of course, Courtney Love shows up!
If you set aside your assumptions of what this book is supposed to be about, you will find a gem of a story; a story of transformation, a story of love, a story of friendship and a story of overcoming. It's not in the wrapper that you might expect to find it, but it's there... and I enjoyed every page of it.
Can't wait for the movie!
And Epic Story About Discovering Your Best Self June 27, 2010
Shane Keller
This isn't just a manual or some step-by-step method to get women. This the story of man who intially started a journey to get better with women, but discovered something much grander in the end. Through his quest to understand women, he came to understand men. And from that, he came to understand himself. Yes, you will learn a lot about the pick-up community, perhaps even better than though a seminar or e-book. But more importantly you learn about self-esteem, using these rules with responsibility, and what it means to find your "best self". Neil Strauss writes this tale with humor and intelligence...hightly reccomend this book.
Great for insights into the initial stage of relationships June 7, 2010
Adam Khan (Seattle, WA USA)
A friend of mine talked me into reading this book. I've been happily married for 25 years, and have no interest in picking up women, but when I read it, I understood why my friend was so adamant. I've studied a lot about NLP, and this was an entirely new practical application of the principles.
Robert Pirsig is my favorite author, and "The Game" is similar to Pirsig's books (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila) in that you get useful insights, genuine information, and brilliant ideas all revealed within an intriguing, real-life story.
I'm the author of a self-help book (Principles for Personal Growth) and I believe dishonesty is an unhealthy approach to relationships. And yet, I think "The Game" would help a man who has difficulty approaching women learn how to get over that particular hurdle. Many of the methods Neil Strauss writes about can be done with complete honesty and could lead you into a long-term, healthy relationship with a woman.
Besides that, it is a fascinating book, at least as much fun to read as a gripping novel.
Great book! June 7, 2010
J. Smith
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a girl and I loved this book. For the guy who needs it, it will give all the right advice. For the girl, it will help you spot the ones who are just looking for a good time verses the ones who are really just trying to get a conversation started. At any rate, it's terrific insight into the male psyche.
 Interesting, but of little value May 11, 2010
A. Warfield (PlayChess.com)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall the book is interesting to read. It's part instructional, part quasi-fictional. I am not saying that the book is fiction, but it reads like fiction, and this quality makes it interesting. However, the beginning chapters reveal PUA information and I felt like I had made a good decision in purchasing the book, but the useable information starts to become scarce as the book goes on and I found myself reading one chapter after another thinking that they all seemed very similar. Too much investment with too little payoff. I'm not disappointed in the purchase, but if you're on a fact finding mission, start with the Mystery Method book written by Mystery. Much more technical and less fluff.
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