{"id":18,"date":"2006-06-20T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T02:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/2006\/06\/20\/book-review-of-the-game-by-neil-strauss\/"},"modified":"2006-10-02T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T21:29:16","slug":"book-review-of-the-game-by-neil-strauss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/2006\/06\/20\/book-review-of-the-game-by-neil-strauss\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review of “The Game”, by Neil Strauss"},"content":{"rendered":"

A story about a guy who knows next to nothing about girls, then not only meets a secret society of pick-up artists who teach him how to score loads of beautiful women, but also becomes THE master pick-up artist himself, who both his students and his teachers go to for tips on how to deal and score with women.  <\/span>Sounds great, doesn’t it?  <\/span>The best part about it is, It’s true, and documented in Neil Strauss’ excellent book, “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pick-up Artists.”   <\/p>\n

If you’ve ever heard of Neil Strauss before, this book provides a fascinating account of what made him Syle, his seduction society pseudonym.  <\/span>And if you have never heard of him, this book will make you WANT to know who he is.  <\/span>Not only does he provide a fascinating look into the many methods of gaining women’s attention—and phone numbers, and panties—but describes in detail the crazy characters who make up this “society of pick-up artists”, as well.<\/p>\n

What’s great about this book, as opposed to all the other ones out there for horny guys wanting to get laid, is the way it’s set up.  <\/span>It’s not a lesson-by-lesson tome detailing “forbidden” methods of “tricking” women into going to bed with you.  <\/span>It’s actually more of one man’s personal account of the frustrations and victories of dealing with women.  <\/span>You learn your lessons, as Strauss learns his own.  <\/span>It’s a description of one man’s journey from master loser, to master seductor.  <\/span>And you can benefit from the knowledge Strauss shares, first-hand, in thrilling detail.<\/p>\n

It all starts with Strauss’ account of growing up “far from attractive,” and far from satisfied with his sex life.  <\/span>All it took to change that was a call from a book editor, asking Strauss to take the mysterious “Layguide” that existed on the Internet, and turn it into a “coherent how-to book”.  <\/span>Though hesitant at first, Strauss finds himself curious—and you the reader curious, as well.  <\/span>While investigating this patchwork of notes on how to get busy, he finds himself delving into a world he—nor the majority of people out there–hardly knew existed…and becoming one of the biggest parts of it.  <\/span>As he writes, “If the layguide had never crossed my path, I, like most men, would never have evolved in my thinking about the opposite sex.”  <\/span>But thanks to discovering it, Style began his journey of transformation from single loser to a guy commanding thousands for his seduction services and advice.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Along the way, he discovers a host of crazy characters and all their "unique" (to say the least!) methods: Mystery and the Mystery Method; Tyler Durden and Papa, and Real Social Dynamics; David DeAngelo and Double Your Dating; Ross Jeffries and Neurolinguistic Programming.  There’s also a range of guys with interesting pseudonyms of their own: Thundercat, Jlaix, Herbal, Jughead.  It’s hard not to laugh as you come across some of these crazy characters and their interesting methods of creating attraction: 3-second ATCs, going "kino", negging.  It’s funny enough to hear what these methods are; learning about what they are as revealed by the various characters, makes the book often hysterical.<\/p>\n

What I find best about "The Game" is the way it’s described as a journey.  <\/span>As I’ve said before in my posts, life really is a journey, and so is the whole process of becoming a better lover.  <\/span>Style’s way of teaching us his lessons isn’t academic, point-by-point lessons.  <\/span>It’s through describing his growth, and letting you grow (and laugh, and groan) with him.  <\/span>If you want to learn what IOIs, 3-sets, negs, ATCs, and peacocking all are, you don’t have to play “The Game”.  <\/span>Just read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A story about a guy who knows next to nothing about girls, then not only meets a secret society of pick-up artists who teach him how to score loads of beautiful women, but also becomes THE master pick-up artist himself, who both his students and his teachers go to for tips on how to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,41,40,44],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dating-book-reviews","tag-neil-strauss","tag-the-game","tag-the-game-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.000relationships.com\/towomen\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}