| | |  | Toys & Games | Home » » The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists | | | | | | | Description: | | "This is one hugely entertaining book. I loved every page. And I will never let Neil Strauss within fifty feet of my wife." --A. J. Jacobs, Esquire
Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive, witty, and controversial books of the year--guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has memorable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange – and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man’s transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year. | | | Features: | |
• Imitation Leather: 452 pages
• Publisher: It Books; 1 edition (September 6, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060554738 ,ISBN-13: 978-0060554736
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Neil Strauss | | Imitation Leather:
| 452 pages | | Publisher:
| It Books | | Publication Date:
| September 01, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0060554738 | | Package Length:
| 9.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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 I Was Seduced!Jul 20, 2010
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 SelfJun 27, 2010
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 relationshipsJun 07, 2010
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.
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Great book!Jun 07, 2010
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.
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 Interesting, but of little valueMay 11, 2010
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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