The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists by Neil Strauss (PDF)

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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 and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade—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 unforgettable 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 this generation.

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⭐This book was entertaining to read. This book describes the author’s self educated story regarding what set of behaviors he needed to learn and exhibit around women in order to obtain the ultimate goal of getting laid. Most people learn this stuff on their own in high school and college. I mean really how hard is it to get laid in High School or College where women are just as dumb and horny as the guys. But if some of you guys need help this is your book. This book may give some of you a routine that you can follow and a few social skills regarding how to approach and talk to women in an effort to get over your fear of women and get some. And basically his advice is telling a woman anything she needs to hear to be entertained and put in a trance of attraction in order to get into her pants. Or you can look at this book as a self improvement book to improve yourself, change and ADAPT yourself so that women are attracted to you and want to sleep with you.This author was given a news assignment to research and write about “pick up artists” (PUA hereinafter). Thereafter, he immersed himself in the PUA community, joined PUA groups, and paid money to attend seminars on how to become a so called “pick up artist”. That’s one thing I love about Niel is his in depth research of any subject he writes about. Most of these groups were formed by nerds and other inexperienced guys that could not get laid in the beginning but later became experts in how to pick up and talk to women, who pass on their knowledge to other helpless men in an effort to help them with women. So Neil, in an effort to learn the best sought out the best PUAs in this so called field of love. And that is how Neil met Mystery, who was Niel’s guru and PUA teacher. Neil then is given a crash course and learns tricks and techniques regarding picking up women (such as minds games, magic, spells, etc lol). Basically this book reads like an autobiography of very short stories 1 to 2 pages or short so called chapters of a the author’s experience as a pick up artist and his experiences of Mystery’s PUA business, which is basically a frat house setting, except these guys rented a mansion as their “frat house” and all the guys living in the frat house were too stupid to balance work, school, along with their wild lifestyle. Mystery and his PUA assistant cohorts supported themselves and paid the rent for this mansion by charging all the guys they could find that were willing to pay money for this info. The author “supposedly” became one of the best “PUAs” (Pick Up Artist = PUA) in the world, by being exposed and learning from Mystery regarding how to dress, how to act, and what to say to hot women, to entice them to give it up to you, even if your not the most attractive guy in the bar and have little to offer a woman to make her want you.I really hated all the abbreviations he uses in the book and they get annoying after a while. The book even included a glossary due to the large number of abbreviations he used in the book. This book showed me just how profitable it can be to train a group of inexperienced guys that wish to pay big $$$$ to learn how to be successful with women. Eventually the “frat house” business folded due to a complete lack of morals and business ethics lol. Not many of the guys living in the house had much to fall back on and were broke and went there separate ways, some even turned to religion to attempt to cleanse themselves of this lifestyle. Others became extremely jaded in their views toward all women due to their vulnerable gullible nature. The author who is an educated writer for the New York Times feels ashamed of himself and living this wild lifestyle once he was exposed publicly, but in the end he embraced the lifestyle and made money writing this book. Neil’s continues his work as a reporter taking breaks to interview some famous people like Tom Cruise, Courtney Love, and Brittany Spears, and his experiences with these famous people included the book, and they are really interesting to read. Neil is able to adapt and even use his new skill set to get difficult people like Brittany Spears to open up and connect to him, which gives him a better interview and story. Neil is one of those exceptional guys that can actually adapt for the better, and balance a job, even while living this crazy lifestyle. Some of the other PUA guys that had a little business savy were able to continue without Mystery and run profitable PUA businesses, but I doubt if any of them can make money after they become middle age men, but maybe I’m wrong. This info is pretty immature stuff aimed at an age group in the late teens to late 30s age group. But it may be able to help someone of any age improve themselves and their ability to seduce a woman.There are so many women now online that pay monthly fees to dating services, and are just begging to be taken, that I really don’t think one needs to work too hard to get laid now in this day and age. Just go online and say “HI” to one of them is sometimes all it takes. The book fails to address any type of internet dating pickup routine, which I believe is the motherload when it comes to meeting girls. You just can’t look to one location such as swanky bars like these guys did to focus your attention on. You need a bigger pool like that found on the internet. There is no way I would pay “Mystery”, who this book is really about, $2,200 or more to attend his so called classes he teaches in Vegas to learn how to pick up sluts or strippers in a bar, who are pretty much whores anyway. Mystery focus on these types of girls. These are his prime targets in the book. If you want to pick up low class chicks one might just save money and spend $50 on a hooker which is a sure thing instead lol. I’m wondering if Mystery just doesn’t plant some hookers in his so called classes and at the bars he attends with his students, just to make sure his clients leave happy and don’t ask for refunds.However, if you need to learn these tricks to help you sharpen your skill set and build your confidence go ahead and buy this book, if you think it will help you or buy it just to be entertained. However, beware if you rely on deceptive tactics to obtain your goal, because your on your own to deal with her intellectual side (that is if she has one lol) after you run out of your “Mystery” routine material. I’m sure most educated girls will see right threw you if you have nothing to offer her long term. Plus the kind of women the author picks up are not very bright, mostly stippers and other sluts with limited education. It is truly amazing the author and Mystery did not die of AIDS or pick up other nasty STDs, if this book is true about all the sex he had with these types of women. I very much doubt most PUA’s would be able to pick up a hot educated woman (like a medical school student, law school student, etc), with the limited routine set described in this book. And there is nothing in this book to educate one on how to sustain any long type of loving relationship built on trust, a stable working lifestyle, that all women long for so they are in a stable environment to raise children. The author even admits that in the book and may be writing a new book on this subject.Read this book to be entertained, but beware of Karma if you decide to pull off any canned routines contained in the book. Some of the examples set out in the stories could result in getting your a$$ kicked. If a guy dressed like Mystery showed up in bars I go to he would be laughed out of it, or beat up or shot in the parking lot. If your successful you may just lose again by catching a nasty STD like AIDS that kills you. Or you might get her pregnant and get nailed for child support. This could be a perfect guide on how to create an emotionally scorned woman ready for revenge. Mystery experienced this type of revenge first hand by one of his Russian girlfriends when he kept pushing her to have a three some with another girl against her wishes. She broke up with him and hooked up with another PUA in the frat house. This ultimately lead Mystery down the path of destruction including threats of suicide and his eviction from the (Project Hollywood) frat house. And Project Hollywood folded because Mystery was the glue that held it together lol. He is the ultimate PUA and guru check out his stuff on utube it is really interesting and the more I watch his videos the more respect I have for his classes. Some of you may just want to pay for and attend his classes. Basically the goal of every PUA in the book was to get a telephone number from a hot babe you meet in 25 minutes or less and get her in bed in 7 hours hours or less or in other words a one night stand. You know something she can be proud of lol. Maybe you can do this without telling her your real name like these guys did lol.The funny thing is that the advice in the book works. And this is just a book built on psychology tricks to learn how to adapt and flirt with women, if you have some type of fear of talking to them. This book should come with a box of condoms because your gonna need them if you learn how to flirt.I do like the design of the book how it comes with a ribbon book mark. It is like this book is your bible to women lol. Enjoy it! Neil is a great author and I do enjoy reading his stuff, but he has so much more potential than the info in this book. I liked his book on Emergency Survival better than this one. A bunch of this stuff in his book is on utube for free check it out first before you buy this book to make sure you are interested in spending money on this type of book. Personally, I think Neil could dress a lot better than the way he is dressed in his videos that I have seen online.Or you may just want to dress up, look nice, work hard, get an education, get a good job, and conquer your fear of women by actually talking to them more. Learn from your failures and don’t give up. Eventually you will become a girl’s best friend. Give her some flowers every once in a while and tell her you love her. That worked for me. Anyway the info in this book has been so over used it is about as fresh as a Foghat concert lol. You need to be able to think and make up your own new material to keep it fresh so you don’t turn into a robot PUA like many of the guys in this book did. Basically it comes down to conveying to a woman that you have something of value to offer her that persuades her to give in to you and putting the right psychological pressure on her to over come her objections.This book shows one that if you live life without any set of morals you will end up miserable whether your getting laid or not, no matter what your status is in life. Learn from these guys mistakes and laugh at their stupidity. However, learn the seduction community is there to take your money! They prey on stupid guys with no social skills, but they may also help some of you get some. It’s up to each guy to put a value on the material in this book.

⭐”The Game”, at first, appears to be an informative, eye-opening, entertaining and DANGEROUS MANUAL ON HOW TO SEDUCE WOMEN. Deep within this controversial book, however, lies one of the best self improvement books available to man… as long as he understands and embraces the fundamental reality that the acquisition of confidence and personal worth are strictly required in order to succeed at the Game. A lot of low self esteem individuals will read this book and become, I believe, better men.And I completely understand the threat many women would feel by this material. But intelligent women are insulated from the manipulation at which many of the individuals featured in this story are so inept. Only the naïve are at risk, as they always have been.Many people refer to this book as a manual on how to seduce women. But Neil Strauss, its author, never made such a claim. It was merely his honest and humorous account of his experience in the PUA (pickup artist) community. But Strauss is a talented writer. And, as such, he not only managed to make this the very entertaining and insightful manual everybody said it was, but has also given an extremely valuable tool to goodhearted men with benign goals – a tool that can be used with mutual benefit, without anyone getting hurt or played. In spite of other reviewers’ claims to the contrary, Strauss does disclose the nature and vivid examples of the emotional and spiritual consequences PUAs reap when they manipulate people for narcissistic purposes.This endeavor began when Strauss, a writer for the New York Times, was given an assignment to write about the underground pickup artist community. Strauss was a skinny, balding intellectual who felt awkward around women and hadn’t had much success with them prior. He immediately homed in on a character named Mystery and hit the mother load. Mystery was a modern day Casanova and widely considered, by the cumulative underground community of PUAs, to be the preeminent pickup artist in the world. Tom Cruise’s seduction guru character in “Magnolia” was supposedly based on Mystery. By the time Strauss finished his assignment, he had transformed himself and assumed Mystery’s title as tenth degree pickup master of the universe.As I began reading the book, I felt uneasy. Knowing this knowledge was out there felt akin to suddenly discovering a bunch of troubled kids figured out how to make nuclear weapons.I’ve always had great interest in psychology and what makes people do the things they do. I discovered my knowledge of psychology was pale in comparison to these guys. They (the serious ones) study contemporary literature on psychology and ancillary subjects, many of which involve some sort of self-improvement. The young, horny ones operate with one laser-focused mission: Bed women… bed as many “9+” women as possible! The more they bed, the more they validate themselves. But some, more enlightened ones, were simply looking to find the best wife/partner they possibly could.Strauss began as Mystery’s student. After a few successes, he began to catch the eye of other PUAs to whom he quickly acclimated himself. He soaked up their knowledge like a sponge. At the end of two years, Strauss had studied, one-on-one, the methods of all the world’s alleged greatest pickup artists and took that which best suited his own personal style and made it his own. In the process he became an underground, worshipped legend – Code Name: Style. But in the process, he also greatly strengthened his core person and acquired the Holy Grail: self-esteem. This book doesn’t just contain the cumulative knowledge of the PUA community, but one hell of an entertaining story.It must be stated that the Game’s contribution to much of Strauss’ unstoppable success is mitigated by the fact that he was a writer for one of the most respected publications in the world, living in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills over Sunset Boulevard (a consequence of rising to the top of the PUA community), regularly interviewing celebrities and driving a nice car; most men with these assets aren’t having issues dating. Still, I believe the majority of what he achieved was aided by his mastery of the basic principals of “The Game”. And those are:1. You can only “game” a woman with whom you are prepared to fail (if you find yourself wanting her too badly, you’ll never have her)2. Exude extreme confidence3. Demonstrate some kind of value, skill or talent NEAR your target, but not directly to her. Initially, pretend you don’t even notice her.4. Win over her friends5. Be hard to get6. Be fun7. Handle challenges from competing men intellectually and psychologically. Never fight.8. Respond to any signs that she’s not interested as if it were “no big deal”9. Once you have your target’s attention, playfully insult (“neg”) her. For example, “I like your hair, is that your natural color?” The more beautiful the woman, the more effective the neg is in garnering interest as they rarely hear comments of that nature.10. Once attraction has been established, punish any unwanted behavior by withdrawing and disinterest, but do not pout or have an attitude.11. Alternate between attraction and disinterest signals in a push-pull fashion until rapport is establishedThere are many other rules, but those are the ones that stuck out to me.As I read, I found myself subconsciously adjusting my behavior, according to Game theory… and getting surprising results. Women that used to intimidate me with their “presence” were suddenly acting goofy/nervous around me. Could this be real? After I got over the initial excitement of my newfound knowledge, I began to get disappointed that the women that made ME goofy/nervous for so long could be so easily manipulated. I feared that I would start to lose respect for women. Who wants someone they don’t respect?But by the time I got to the end, I realized that I wasn’t manipulating anyone. I was simply carrying myself with more confidence. I found myself initiating conversations with strangers. There were no signs of neediness or social anxiety. I realized a man with a conscience can take a small portion of the knowledge shared in “The Game” to simply get over that first, most difficult hurdle of establishing rapport with a woman to whom he is attracted. I realized all anyone reading this book is really looking for is confidence. And many individuals that happen to gain a skill or talent as a result of his quest for a better sex life might just get some self esteem in the process. And that, I believe, is the greatest good of this material. The greater one’s self esteem, the higher his goals.Knowledge is power. And it’s only how that power is used that can reveal the nature of its possessor. The only real dangerous “players” out there are the ones whose cognitive reasoning and emotional maturity never fully develop and, at the same time, possess Oscar-worthy acting skills. Yeah, there are a few out there. But an intelligent woman knows when she’s being played. And as Strauss saw repeatedly, manipulating and seducing a woman, in and of itself, is a victory that invariably leaves one hollow, still unfulfilled. In the end, your true self is what counts and is the only thing that can find and keep love.

⭐There are two versions of this book – the original 2005 version (which is great) and the newer black cover version which isn’t. The original version has much more advice in it while the newer one omits all the best bits and is much more of a story. If possible, get the original.

⭐I bought this purely out of curiosity and because I wanted to better understand the mindset behind why guys behave the way they do. It was very insightful and I liked how Neil’s journey led him to realise the dark side of pick up artistry. I wish some of my ex’s would have the same insight. At the same time, it astonishes me how insecurity basically led these men to treat other people as objects rather than fellow human beings…and then actually trained other people to do the same! I can’t get over how picking up women is likened to military scenes of targeting and wingmen. Now nearly 20 years on, it’s no wonder that men are finding that these ‘tricks’ no longer work because women are all too familiar with them. Not to mention ‘me too’. This isn’t a tirade against men – women can also be manipulative and selfish. But these men made whole careers out of playing other people and making a whole sub-culture which has now turned men and women against each other.

⭐Tedious. Not the book if you want to improve yourself and actually find a decent partner.That is was written as a story actually made it even more dull. A how to guide might have at least been fun to read.Maybe useful if you want to learn to be a manipulative weirdo.’Mate’ by Tucker Maxx covers similar ground and is infinitely better.

⭐To be fair the story is not interesting at all as it narrates the unbearable celebrity-like lifestyle with a group of immature, needy and psychologically unstable people playing an odd plan called ‘The Game’Players of ‘The Game’, treat women as targets that should be seduced, convinced (or even tricked) and conquered. They justify anti-social or aggressive behaviours of themselves through a kind of social Darwinism and then define sexual intercourse as the ultimate gaol to be achieved with their targets. People who can go through all these stages easily and successfully call themselves PUAs, eventually becoming obsessed with this pattern, giving up all the normal life to play and teach ‘The Game’ for living. In fact, Neil demonstrates that ‘The Game’ is not as interesting as it sounds at first and can be quite difficult to cope with its consequences.Leaving the story behind, the book has some good points and quotes to offer. If you read the book until the end with an open-mind, you can easily spot the references to real invaluable stuff like the body-language analysis, human psychology and evolutionary biology. You can read on them to understand human interaction with the opposite sex and play your own version of the game.

⭐Whether you believe this is entirely a true story or not, it’s a cracking read. Easy to read and great fun – I wouldn’t use it as an advice guide for talking to the ladies though! Some of the corny tips used may work in the US (I wouldn’t know!), but I’m pretty sure they won’t work in the UK!

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