the game penetrating the secret society of pickup artists

(If that is what you're looking for, Strauss still runs a company call 'Stylelife Academy' which sells workshops and DVDs and coaching, etc.) I listened to this book (narrated by the author himself) because of course I have heard of these 'Pickup Artists' and while I have no interest in playing 'the Game' or becoming the sort of person they describe, it's an interesting, fascinating, somewhat pathetic subculture, but it's also instructive. While Strauss talks a lot about the 'seduction techniques' he and his fellow PUAs (Pick-Up Artists) developed, this isn't a self-help guide for teaching them. However, it should be understood that this particular book is a memoir and an expose by a Rolling Stone journalist, not an actual pickup Guide. People are likely to have strong feelings about this book, from disgust to bemusement to desperate interest on the part of the AFCs ('Average Frustrated Chumps') that Strauss talks so much about, after confessing to being one. Won't up your Game, but better than reality TV The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year.

And then things really start to get strange - and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence.

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. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year - guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever.

And Neil Strauss, the best-selling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. They live together in houses known as Projects. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair.

The game penetrating the secret society of pickup artists