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Loading... The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artistsby Neil Strauss
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I think the book was a bit amusing, just because the men it's about really makes this game into some sort of a secret society, a cult. I found myself thinking and hoping that there are more than games and sexual behaviors going on in these boys mind and that there are woman out there, who can see through the game or even play themselves. very interesting read - the actual info is a bit sparse for the wantabe lathario but the yarn i found quite interesting. The ending is not quite what I had thought . Read as a yarn it was entertaining but no literary giant, read as a guide to helping the dull and desperate , I think there are other ways to get there. Good luck fellas. Neil Strauss's writing style (no pun intended) would have made this a captivating read even without the added bonus of Mystery's ridiculousness and Courtney Love's endearing nuttiness. But when all is said and done, even the men who "score" at this "game" end up looking pathetic. They can dress it up all they want, the bottom line is that they spend hours of their lives and thousands of their dollars pretending to be someone they aren't just to get idiot strippers to pay attention to them. None of them end up happy when all is said and done. no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0060554738, Imitation Leather)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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:05 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I don't think they've ever read it though. Because, honestly, though the book runs through a bunch of idiotic, clubbing women who end up being one-night-stands for a variety of creepy guys, in the end they're all reduced to pathetic people who are missing something valuable from their minds and lives.
I chose this book as the one for my end of the year psychology thesis in college. It was chock full of the good stuff. (