The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Neil Strauss

May 2012 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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 and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade—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 unforgettable 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 this generation.

Ratings and reviews

If you actually understood what we do and why it is that we do it, you would understand why people look up to them/us rather than bad mouthing it. I get that from a girls prospective you see out differently than us and to be honest I don't like Neils take on the art of pick up, but not all of us just do this to sleep with women, its a path to a better life in every way shape and form

The worst book i read in years. The author should be thrown in prison for writing excrusiating painful book. It will never give you games except a highschool love drama and big boy acting like little kids story. The book should be placed in washroom...when u ran out soft paper...use the book pages to wipe your ass. It will be more profitable if the writer get deported to austrialia

Mind opening, is not abute the girls and how PUA's work is more how you see your self and have the confidens to be a bether person. If you r a women don't read it. You r gona finde it boring. Is more of a guys book. Have fun reeding this book i know i did.

About the author

NEIL STRAUSS is an award-winning writer for Rolling Stone and the author or coauthor of ten New York Times bestsellers. He splits his time between Los Angeles and wherever the Jonas Brothers are.