Has anybody read The Game by Neil Strauss?

Justin1226

Out of curiosity has anybody read The Game by Neil Strauss and if so what did you think of it?

mad muffin

I thought Michael Douglas was great in it.

PirateShampoo

Never felt like that much of a loser to feel the need to.

razorblunt

I lost. Well played OP.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Falling Down was much better.

Idbatterim

read it when it first came out, my brother actually met the author and a few others mentioned in the book in a club in hollywood in 2008, had a great laugh with them by all accounts! Funnily enough that night, they managed to get on the playboy bunny bus for a few hours (totally unrelated to meeting Neil Strauss), unfortunately I chose to leave a few days before all of this happened!

somefeen

Thought that book was all about documenting weirdo pick up artists rather than trying to make you a weirdo pick up artist

cloud493

Unfortunately./

dan1895

Was strangely bought for me as a present. Read first chapter before putting it somewhere and not thinking of it evr again until now.

neil_

PirateShampoo wrote: »

Never felt like that much of a loser to feel the need to.

It's 2015, I think we can move past the idea that reading books is for losers

Fukuyama

neil_ wrote: »

It's 2015, I think we can move past the idea that reading books is for losers

If you find yourself actually considering reading book dedicated to manipulating a small sub-set of damaged women for the purposes of getting laid, then you're probably a loser.

Desolation Of Smug

I preferred his brother Levi. He's got the good genes.

The Backwards Man

I haven't, but I predict there will be a lot of Jan 15 regs along presently who have.

Desolation Of Smug

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I haven't, but I predict there will be a lot of Jan 15 regs along presently who have.

Pah, everyone wants the shiny new 151 reg. I'm just dreading the balloon payment.

Satriale

razorblunt wrote: »

I lost. Well played OP.

Damn it, that's twice this week... :mad:

catallus

What's the book about?

porsche959

Isn't it a handbook for sociopaths?

Sugar Free

I actually thought it was an entertaining read in terms of the story but didn't take much stock from the PUA theory.

catallus

porsche959 wrote: »

Isn't it a handbook for sociopaths?

Sociopaths need handbooks now?

Sky King

Desolation Of Smug wrote: »

I preferred his brother Levi. He's got the good genes.

Why does this post not have more thanks?

Sugar Free

Sky King wrote: »

Why does this post not have more thanks?

Because it's less than one hour old...

BBDBB

catallus wrote: »

What's the book about?

Its all about dat base, bout dat base.

no trouble

blackwave

I thought it was a fun read. As for how useful his pickup stuff is now??? Things like Peacocking and bringing cards etc to clubs just sounds cringey to me. I think even he doesn't advocate that approach anymore either.

tomwaterford

Sugar Free wrote: »

I actually thought it was an entertaining read in terms of the story but didn't take much stock from the PUA theory.

I've often heard of this book (mainly on here)...what actually is it about??

Would like to know from someone who actually read it




Im not for promoteing/dismissing it or anything....just pure curious
Is it actually a story to it or is it like a diy book

catallus

BBDBB wrote: »

Its all about dat base, bout dat base.

no trouble

Set in Russia, so?

blackwave

tomwaterford wrote: »

I've often heard of this book (mainly on here)...what actually is it about??

Would like to know from someone who actually read it




Im not for promoteing/dismissing it or anything....just pure curious
Is it actually a story to it or is it like a diy book

It's mostly a story of how he ingrained himself into the Pickup Artist community and how he changed from being a failure with women in his words! To becoming much more confident and a success with women. I think it is very entertaining to be fair but I would take a lot of it with a pinch of salt.

Sugar Free

tomwaterford wrote: »

I've often heard of this book (mainly on here)...what actually is it about??

Would like to know from someone who actually read it




Im not for promoteing/dismissing it or anything....just pure curious
Is it actually a story to it or is it like a diy book

Journalist for Rolling Stone does a piece on 'seduction' artists. Ends up becoming good friends with some of them and is heavily involved in the scene. Is widely regarded as one of the top PUA's.

Group of them rent out a big house and run paid courses for guys on how to be better with women.

Realises that although the stuff he learned helped him immensely to develop as a person, the nature of what they learn can screw up other guys views on things.

It's been about ten years since I read so that's my best recollection.

Starscream25

It's a funny old read alright, entertaining at times. it's very 'American-ey', you'd be frowned at quite a bit on this side of the water if you approached women the way that is described in the book. If it did anything for me it put in me in the mindframe to try and meet women, realistically it didn't help but worth the read for a laugh.

Ah good, haven't had a thread on this topic in a few weeks.

neil_

Dean0088 wrote: »

If you find yourself actually considering reading book dedicated to manipulating a small sub-set of damaged women for the purposes of getting laid, then you're probably a loser.

The Game is a novel, not a "book dedicated to manipulating a small sub-set of damaged women for the purposes of getting laid".

If you're not interested in it fair enough, but I really don't know why you'd call other people losers for reading it You're just assuming you know everything about it, having not even read it, and pronouncing judgement on others who do read it (not necessarily like or agree with it, just.. read it). Highly ignorant!

tomwaterford

Sugar Free wrote: »

Journalist for Rolling Stone does a piece on 'seduction' artists. Ends up becoming good friends with some of them and is heavily involved in the scene. Is widely regarded as one of the top PUA's.

Group of them rent out a big house and run paid courses for guys on how to be better with women.

Realises that although the stuff he learned helped him immensely to develop as a person, the nature of what they learn can screw up other guys views on things.

It's been about ten years since I read so that's my best recollection.

Very good report there

Just one last question....would it he regarded as a bit dated....as I often see it promoted around here (never in real life)

Sugar Free

tomwaterford wrote: »

Very good report there

Just one last question....would it he regarded as a bit dated....as I often see it promoted around here (never in real life)

Honestly I don't know as I don't read PUA stuff. I think in the book it touches on multiple 'methods' but the author more or less admits that confidence is a big factor regardless of what you do. That much at least is something most people would agree on!

kowloon

neil_ wrote: »

It's 2015, I think we can move past the idea that reading books is for losers

All the hip kids are into vellum scrolls. Books have been so mainstream since the late 15th century.

Tarzana2

Sky King wrote: »

Why does this post not have more thanks?

Why does the following post not have more thanks? Gave me the lolz anyway. :pac:

neil_ wrote: »

It's 2015, I think we can move past the idea that reading books is for losers

Earthhorse

I read it. As others who have read it have said it is actually an entertaining read. He gets himself into plenty of situations where he's out of his depth and he writes quite well. There's a lot of questionable behaviour in there too but that's life.

Wibbs

I found the same as Earthy. In my recollections it's actually got little or no Pickup stuff in it. Nothing like the avalanche since.

porsche959 wrote: »

Isn't it a handbook for sociopaths?

Eh no. No it's not.

grizzly

Relevant.

Raminahobbin

Read it out of curiosity, and thought it was interesting as an autobiographical book, but I've enjoyed very much being able to spot guys putting some of the stuff into practice on my friends and I on nights out.

Not a fan of the huge sub-culture of PUAs that developed though, they can be such assholes. And negging really, really písses me off. I ended up screaming the head off some guy in Jervis once because he was failing so badly at negging and was just flat out insulting me (this was before I'd read the book and knew what he was doing).

TheBeardedLady

Yeah, read it for my all women book club a few months ago. We loved it!

JaseBelleVie

Nope, but I have read his collaboration with Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars (collectively better known as Mötley Crüe) entitled The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band. Now that is a book to read. Absolutely brilliant book.

Grayson

Dean0088 wrote: »

If you find yourself actually considering reading book dedicated to manipulating a small sub-set of damaged women for the purposes of getting laid, then you're probably a loser.

You haven't read it have you? The book is about the guys who do this, not the women. It's like saying Thelma and Louise is about two blokes who's wives run off.

Grayson

Raminahobbin wrote: »

Read it out of curiosity, and thought it was interesting as an autobiographical book, but I've enjoyed very much being able to spot guys putting some of the stuff into practice on my friends and I on nights out.

Not a fan of the huge sub-culture of PUAs that developed though, they can be such assholes. And negging really, really písses me off. I ended up screaming the head off some guy in Jervis once because he was failing so badly at negging and was just flat out insulting me (this was before I'd read the book and knew what he was doing).

When I first heard about negging I thought "That would never work in Ireland. You'd get yourself a box in the face".

A while later I realised that guys in Ireland do it but differently. I'd slag a girl I liked and I'd hope she'd slag me back. It's kinda negging but different.