The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

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

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
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Author: Neil Strauss
Edition: Imitation Leather
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 0060554738
Number of pages: 452
Publisher: William Morrow

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Book Review: Not the How-To Manual, but a Fun Read
Summary: 4 Stars

I borrowed this book and it sat for a while mainly because its a large book and I'm very lazy. But when I started to actually read it, I couldn't put it down. It's one of the better books I've read in a long time I think because its a subject near and dear to my heart.

Before I cracked open the book, I thought it was going to be more of a guide on how to attract and bed women, but there are only a nuggets of information presented in a "how-to" fashion, but if you read the entire book, you'll still pick up some decent tips.

Based on this book, I bought the follow up called Rules of the Game, which I found to be lacking. If you want to get a real understanding of The Game and how to create some of the same magic, get Secrets of the A Game: How to Meet and Attract Women Anywhere, Anyplace, Anytime. It's not by the same author, but might as well be. Everything that the author does in The Game is explained very well in A Game. If you need all the help you can get, buy all of them, read them and actually go out and put that knowledge to use.

Summary of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

"This is one hugely entertaining book. I loved every page. And I will never let Neil Strauss within fifty feet of my wife." --A. J. Jacobs, Esquire

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, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive, witty, and controversial books of the year--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 memorable 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 the year.


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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