The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Book Review: Recommended reading
Summary: 4 Stars
Picked this up as a gift and kept it. Fascinating story, great writing, outlandish cast of characters, intriguing plot.
Highly recommended.
Book Review: Horrible design
Summary: 1 Stars
The publisher/author have done a terrible job on the design of this book. With a faux leather cover and gold page edges, it looks like a bible or something. But it has pictures of nude women on the front cover.
The book looks so hokey, it is guaranteed I cannot read it in a public place without being considered some kind of pervert or something.
Thanks a lot. Not.
Book Review: It was that good.
Summary: 4 Stars
Neil gives his story of how he started in the community. He was one of the first to attend Mystery's workshops and than soon after start teaching with him. All of Neil's hardships he encounters, fears and set backs he tells all in this book as he learns about himself.
There are lessons intertwined about what he learned working with a lot of the seduction teachers.
I also recommend my favorite book about relationships I Love You. Now What?: Falling in Love is a Mystery, Keeping It Isn't
Book Review: THE GAME
Summary: 4 Stars
I like the occasional humorous burst and the smart comments here and there, but honestly, the tricks that are used in this "auto-biography" are a little extreme. I grabbed this book based off of a friend's recommendation for it being a good read of a different flavor and often times offering a comical approach and a certain "wow" factor of the author's transformation to a pick-up artist. About sex my favorite book is Sex and the Perfect Lover: Tao, Tantra, and the Kama SutraBook Review: Will change your view of nerds forever. Fascinating!
Summary: 5 Stars
What a great read "The Game" is! I was enthralled, fascinated, repulsed, amused, embarrassed, nauseated and impressed - all at the same time!!
Neil Strauss, writer and self-confessed loser in love takes on the challenge of transforming himself into not just a PUA (Pick Up Artist), but an MPUA (Master Pick Up Artist). Using the alias Style, Strauss sets out to learn the secrets of luring HB's (Hot Babes) into bed from the current masters of the game. There's Mystery, an illusionist-cum-pick up artist- genius, who teaches the Mystery Method of Seduction; there's David D'Angelo, who teaches the Cocky-Funny method; the legendary Steve P, an acknowledged master of the game, and a slew of other experts, who specialise in turning awkward, luckless nerds into chick magnets.
As a woman reading this, I was fascinated by the whole subculture of PUA's, their websites, their field reports, their group houses and most of all, their special lingo. It is quite remarkable that they have evolved an extensive list of acronyms and terms which they use to talk to each other about "The Game". I had no idea that something like this existed and it never have occurred to me that men agonise to such an extreme extent over their abillity (or lack thereof) of attracting women. Are PUA methods creepy and flat-out manipulative? You bet they are!! No stone has been left unturned by these self-styled seduction gurus to find the ultimate way to charm a Hot Babe into bed. They have adapted principles of neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis, backhanded insults, cold shoulder tactics, blatant lying and other subversive forms of psychological manipulation to hunt down all willing females. I was blown away by this first-hand account of such an amazing, unknown till now, subculture.
Neil Strauss aka Style, is a wonderful writer who is consistently amusing whilst giving a serious and truthful account of his two-year adventure as a loser in love turned Master PUA. I found his insights into women credible and insightful and he comes across as someone I would have loved to date myself! He is intelligent, articulate, funny and adorable! His descriptions of the current Pick Up Artist gurus and their army of adoring acolytes is hilarious and tragic-comic by turns.
I highly recommend "The Game" to one and all. It is a marvellous insight into an underbelly of the singles/dating scene that I had no idea existed. I promise that reading it is the most fun you'll have with your clothes on this year!