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22 of 24 found the following review helpful:
The book that started it all Nov 21, 2009
By L. M. Barber
In this crowded genre, Mystery's book is the best out there for attracting and influencing women the first time you meet them. It's full of its own jargon, charts, basically everything you need to know on picking up any woman the first time you meet them. Very analytical for the reasons why things work, or fall flat. Some of the techniques are common sense to corny, questionable, and manipulative. Regardless, simply pick and choose what would work best for you. A must own book for smoothing your style with the ladies.
To fully appreciate how it works, buy The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
For the upper hand with women in relationships, both mentally and financially , you should also get The Professional Bachelor Dating Guide - How to Exploit Her Inner Psycho. Besides dating, it lays out how to creating asset protection if you're planning marriage.
281 of 355 found the following review helpful:
 Informative, but It won't make you happy... Sep 28, 2007
By B. Henrikson
I'll start off saying that this book is worth reading because it will teach you about people, both men and women. Any book that is ranked #27 at amazon that is about THIS topic is obviously special. There are many books that promise guys sex with beautiful women, but few make it in the top 10000, let alone the top 100. What makes this one different?
I think because it explains how mating in human beings works in a progression and from an evolutionary psychology standpoint, while at the same time applying it to the bar/club/party scene.
The idea is this: High quality women look for high quality men. They won't have sex with you until they see you as high quality. This means you either have to actually BE high quality, or you have to give the illusion of being high quality. This book teaches you to mostly do the 2nd, not the 1st.
Peacocking, memorizing canned material, learning palm reading and magic tricks, pretending to have lots of friends and women, telling fictional stories as the truth, these things don't make you higher quality. They only create the illusion. This makes sense, after all, the author is a professional illusionist.
If you want a higher-quality woman LONG TERM, make yourself higher quality. This book mostly teaches you how to fake it long enough to get them into bed.
This method, if followed diligently and practiced A LOT, may get you in bed with some 10s. But it won't last because eventually the real you and the real her will surface and there will be no more game, just an awkward incompatibility.
I would much rather be with a 7 who is a good person, intelligent, and loyal, than a 10 who is spoiled, thinks the world owes her a living because of her beauty, and will soon cheat on you (and how could she not, she has male-10s offering her sex 24/7 - are you THAT great she would turn them all down?).
If you want sex in a relationship that will make you happy, it will probably be with someone who is about as good quality as you are. That is the only way you will both appreciate each other long term and stay loyal to each other.
139 of 182 found the following review helpful:
Not just for pick up artists Mar 18, 2007
By Michael P. Maslanka
This short book is about being persuasive and asserting influence. If you peel away the title,though, it could be about marketing and closing any sale: don't be needy; be mentally able to walk away from any deal; understand the value of having a high social proof; invest others in you; develop a process, not a one liner. It has some good stuff about how our brains are wired and why. And, having read Strauss's book, I believe that Mystery and his method works for a PUA but it sounds like a lot of work, which maybe why he claims that there is only 4 to 10 hours between meeting and congress. The book is well written and makes good use of charts, although the bullet points are overdone---like apricot jam spread on toast, a little can go a long way. A book that anyone who persuades for a living should ,well, pick up.
193 of 254 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent, if dry Mar 08, 2007
By R. Grimsley
You should read "The Game" by Neil Strauss first - Neil's book is a very entertaining read. This book is a textbook, pure and simple. The information is outstanding, but it's not meant to be entertaining, just informative. The book is not hard to understand at all, if you've read "The Game" first.
For those who say "Act naturally and practice, you don't need advice books", everyone can benefit from coaching. Even Michael Jordan acknowledged how coaches helped his basketball game.
In response to the reviewer that compained about PUA's manipulating females, women have men beat in the manipulation game by a country mile. Women manipulate to obtain money and resources for men, and there are entire industries devoted to it (women's magazines, clothing, makeup, plastic surgery, etc.). The PUA community is only an attempt to level the playing field.
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Not bad, but disappointing Feb 08, 2011
By Corwin G. Lemon
I was turned toward this book by a buddy that read, "The Game," by Neil Strauss, and told me it "changed his life." A little looking and I found my way to "The Mystery Method," written by Strauss's teacher, a man named Mystery. I was interested in improving my social skills. Who isn't, right? Well, let's cut to the chase.
If you are looking for a book that gives you some perspective on social interactions between men and women, this might not be a bad buy. It's a lot of philosophy mixed with psychology on the topic of how the sexes interact. For this purpose, it can open your eyes a bit, if you've been stumbling around blind. If you weren't in the total dark, however, this book is maybe not for you. Mystery is a man in the center of the "Pick-up Artist" world, and these guys make most of their money off of self-help SEMINARS, and not books. The book is basically the "hook" in getting you to start looking at shelling out a lot more cash to attend one of these seminars, which they call "boot camps." It gives you some good psych lessons on the importance of peaking interest in a manner which doesn't come off as to direct and needy, but it shys away from giving actual advice, instead leaving you only with a vague idea. One of the most important concepts revolves around "Developing Higher Value" (DHV), yet fails to really ever mention what those "values" are, instead leaving the reader to guess at what they might already believe. In my eyes, values are concrete. Why not talk a bit about what those values are, if you are trying to appeal to them?
For a book which is about (I'm guessing) helping the clueless in social interactions, it gives you a peak into a new world, but falls short of ever letting you into that world. You CAN gain entrance, for the low price of one of the "boot camps," assuming you've the time, desire, need, and (oh yeah) $1k+ to do so. It's not a bad read, but don't expect much, and certainly don't expect anything specific. It furthered my thoughts about how and why people act the way they do with one another, but I think it falls short of its intended mark.
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