I really didn’t want to like this book, but I did.
The book I’m referring to is “The Game,” by Neil Strauss. It was introduced to me as a book that teaches guys how to pick up girls. One of the tricks in the book included insulting women.
After hearing this, I obviously didn’t want to like it. I read it out of curiosity and determined to go through everything written and say “this would never work on me or anyone I know.”
Sadly, I have to admit, “The Game” is really well written. But it’s also not what I expected. It’s an autobiography of Style or even an anthropological study of a weird sect/cult (of Pick Up Artists), not a How-To book. I have to confess I couldn’t put it down.
The story starts with Neil Strauss, a man who has terrible skills at meeting women, he ends up becoming Style, an amazing Pick Up Guru, teaching desperate men how to pick up women. The results are TERRIFYING.
To my shock a lot of the techniques taught make sense. “The Game” explains how men can have conversations with women who would normally not give them the time of day, how to flirt with them and end up sleeping with them.
One way these men can initiate contact with a woman is by talking to all her friends while kind of ignoring her and making fun of her. *Editor's Note: ASSWIPE!
The guys learn how to be two steps ahead of women. This “5 questions” game, is an example of that.
One of the ways they escalate physical interaction is by “going two steps forward, one step back.” And if they’re at an apartment, they do a “Freeze Out.” So they basically chill out and watch TV while ignoring the girl until she’s desperate to sleep with him.
