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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists |  | Author: Neil Strauss
Publisher: It Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  620 reviews
Sales Rank: 597
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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Product Description
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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 Great for geeks and losers only September 9, 2010
M CLASS (California)
I was over at a guy friends house when I saw this book on his nightstand, I read through a few pages when he took it from me lol! So I checked it out from the library to see what this book was all about.
Wow is all I can say... telling a girl she has an eye booger works? Not with me or any of my friends. Maybe a girl suffering from low self esteem (yes insanely hot girls have low self worth too), but a healthy person would not feel like this was a good talking point at a club.
I will say most of these methods I do naturally, I didnt realize some people studied and practiced it. It's just being social, so of course it will work. Other things such as going up to a group of people and starting a conversation about a dorky magic trick.... uh no. Not with any real hip group of friends. Me and my girlfriends love men like this, we pretend we are all into them just to get them to continue their little performance. They never even realize we are being facetious and leading them on until the end, and sometimes not even then. His game worked on Courtney Love for two reasons, one she cares too much about herself to notice the other person and two she is a crackhead. Pretty sure right time, right place may have been his lucky key.
However the book itself was funny and interesting but it made me feel uncomfortable. after all, PUA's live with their parents still? Really? Use your "game" to con someone into giving you a good paying job!
 Awesome! August 24, 2010
Mckenzie Brock
This book was well worth the money. It is beautifully written that keeps you interested and slightly giddy. It's an amazing book that can help you become the thing every afc has ever wanted to be a pua.
Too weird August 16, 2010
Sam Johnson (Mississippi)
I don't like this book; it's too strange. If you are looking for a "how to" book, "Secrets of the A Game: How to Meet and Attract Women Anywhere, Anyplace, Anytime" is much better.
 Well Written, Entertaining, a Pickup The-Easy-Way August 12, 2010
Michael Shick (Norwalk, CT)
If you're not familiar with The-Easy-Way books, they are an educational series that turns any body of knowledge into a story for edutainment purposes. That's what this is. It's not a manual. If you pick it up as a manual, you are wasting your time. It is an entertaining experience with many scattered tidbits of advice that changes your perspective enough to make a difference in the Pickup world.
Without revealing the plot or turning this into an essay, you can expect a very deep encounter with human nature from both collective and female perspectives. The narrative ease is dazzling, shuffling from first person to dialog to stories. Without a doubt there is no substitute for a talented writer who has transformed himself by visiting the outer limits of human psychology to undisputably dominate the battlefield.
Not a How-To book, but a great, entertaining read August 6, 2010
Joseph Copeli (Forest Hills, NY)
There's a good chance I wouldn't have believed some of the extreme claims made in this book if I hadn't seen VH1's reality show, The Pickup Artist, first. Whether you believe it or not, Neil Strauss' The Game is a fun and hilarious book that will suck you in and keep you reading until you hit the back cover.
The gist of the book is as follows: Neil Strauss is asked by an editor to investigate the underground PUA (pick-up artist) community. Like most people, Strauss doubted that he would find anything legitimate, but decided to look into the assignment, partly out of self-interest. After learning some PUA techniques from Mystery, creator of the Mystery Method of seduction and perhaps the greatest PUA, and finding some success, Strauss takes on the alias "Style" and totally immerses himself in the lifestyle. Style uses the skills honed by years of writing and journalism to study the many schools of seduction and eventually emerges as one of the world's greatest pick-up artists, rivaling and perhaps even surpassing Mystery.
Strauss packs in plenty of hilarious details about the encounters of various PUA's in many different situations, various episodes concerning Mystery and his emotional and mental disturbances, and the events leading up to the collapse of Mystery's ambitious Project Hollywood. Most importantly, Strauss provides his own insightful commentary on all the things the PUA community has completely wrong, namely the misogynistic tendencies of many PUA's, the lack of originality and individual thought amongst PUA's and the complete absence of any "techniques" for staying in healthy, long-term relationships.
Despite Mystery's self-defeating personality, the lawlessness of Project Hollywood and having a large number of PUA's turn against him, Style manages to keep his head on straight and even lands himself the girl of his dreams-without using any seduction techniques (they have quite the opposite effect, actually)!
Even if you don't believe in the powers of the pick-up artist, this book is worth checking out if only for Strauss' wonderful story of developing confidence in himself and finding happiness. And if you do think there is something to this seduction thing, then this book is a good starting point for learning some things and how to not let yourself get carried away.
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