Note that I'm fully aware of the some of the ethical problems involved in some of this behavior. Note that some of this can be quickly gathered from the glossary at the end, though it lacks the revealing context of the story. Since I was there for the content, I'll lay some of the important bits out from you, using the book sections, which are cleverly named for the steps in Strauss' method. He openly acknowledges the sources on which he and the other PUAs build, most notably the Mystery Method and Ross Jeffries' take on NLP called Speed Seduction, though there are others. And few of the deep patterns are original to Strauss, just his particular routines. (I'm still waiting for explication of the October Man sequence.) What content you can sift out isn't complete or entirely instructive. Some pickup secrets are actually included in the book, but they're dispersed throughout, where they fit into the narrative.
The chapter numbers are represented as dice. Inside, each chapter begins with a white-on-black pithy quote relating to the events in the section, and an incongruous illustration featuring Strauss (megalomania, anyone?) in some straight-out-of-an- RPG-corebook situation with a Hot Babe or two. If you are reading this, I want you to know that I wasn't running game on you. Just after the title is the following irony-laden dedication.ĭedicated to the thousands of people I talked to in bars, clubs, malls, airports, grocery stores, subways, and elevators over the last two years. The tone gets set really early in the book. So it must be a how-to manual, right? But I quickly learned that this was less the explanatory how-to book I expected than a narrative. That's right-it looked just like a bible.
The first printing is Yapp style, bound in faux-leather black softback and rounded, gilt edges, with a spine-bound red ribbon bookmark. When I first removed it from the packaging I was amazed at the chutzpah of the book designers. And the previews of The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists made it seem like this was a well-written how-to manual.
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It's part of my personal, ongoing thread about learning how to be effective in social situations. As much as it pains me, I'll be honest: I got the book wanting to know the secrets, to have the power.
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