FAGBOK(?) : "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" av Neil Strauss

Må skynde meg å skrive noe om denne. Nå oversettes den jo til norsk og forfatteren er på Skavlan! Og alle aviser har artikler om sjekking….. Så nå går en kul bok over til å bli opplæring hos harry sjekkere på byen…

Men jeg likte boken veldig godt. Har lest How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale før, og liker Neil Strauss sin skrivestil godt.

Boken handler egentlig om to ting:

- Teknikker for å sjekke damer. Dette er interessant stoff; ikke fordi jeg aktivt skal bruke teknikkene, men snarere fordi det er en morsom blanding av psykologi og teknikker som gjelder ganske generelt for å omgås mennesker. Hadde vel neppe blitt noen supersjekker hvis jeg hadde lest boken da jeg var 18, men hvem vet….

- Beskrivelse av miljøer som sjekker damer. Dette viser seg å være nærmest er nerdemiljø, hvor folk kan teknikkene for å sjekke damer, men forstår lite av hvordan de skal omgås dem etterpå. Og beskrivelsen av hvordan gruppen etter hvert selvdestrueres er svært lesverdig.

Også er det fascinerende at dette faktisk er beskrivelse av virkelige miljøer. Og at personene eksisterer i virkeligheten. Ta for eksempel en titt på http://www.pickupguide.com/ og http://www.fastseduction.com/.

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Fra Amazon
Are you just another AFC ("average frustrated chump") trying to meet an HB ("hot babe")? How would you like to "full-close" with a Penthouse Pet of the Year? The answers, my friend, are in Neil Strauss's entertaining book The Game. Strauss was a self-described chick repellant--complete with large, bumpy nose, small, beady eyes, glasses, balding head, and, worst of all, painful shyness around women. He felt like "half a man." That is, until a book editor asked him to investigate the community of pickup artists. Strauss's life was transformed. He spent two years bedding some fine chiquitas and studying with some of the North America's most suave gents--including the best of them all, the God of the pickup "community," a man named Mystery.

Mystery is an aspiring Toronto magician who charges $2,250 for a weekend pickup workshop. He is not much to look at: a cross between a vampire and a computer geek. But by using high-powered marketing techniques he's turned seduction into an effortless craft--even inventing his own vocabulary. His technique sounds like a car salesman's tip sheet: his main rule is FMAC--find, meet, attract, close. He employs the "three-second rule"--always approach a woman within three seconds of first seeing her in order to avoid getting shy. Other tricks: Intrigue a beautiful woman by pretending to be unaffected by her charm; also, never hit on a woman right away. Start with a disarming, innocent remark, like "Do you think magic spells work?" or "Oh my god, did you see those two girls fighting outside?" And finally, the most important characteristic of the pickup artist--smile.

After two years, Strauss ends up becoming almost as successful as Mystery, but he comes to an important realization. His techniques were actually off-putting to the woman he ended up falling in love with. And they never prepared him for actually having a relationship. After a while, he ran out of one-liners and had to have a real conversation. Still, The Game is a great read that may help some AFCs come out of their shells. --Alex Roslin

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