The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists^[1] by Neil Strauss is a non-fiction book about the seduction community. It featured on the New York Times best sellers list during September and October 2005 and was the best selling book on Amazon.com soon after its release.^{[citation needed]}

The book details Strauss's induction into the community and his rise from "average frustrated chump" to becoming a "master pick-up artist" under his pseudonym, Style. It documents Style's learning from other pick-up artists including Mystery, Ross Jeffries, and David DeAngelo.

The book is not so much a "how to", but more of an autobiographical work on Strauss' own "rise to fame" within the seduction community. Although the work is largely driven by a seduction/NLP principal theme, other interesting anecdotes and "mini-stories" or subplots abound throughout, one such example is the description of the author's trip through Trans-Dniester, or the attempt to adopt a new sleep regimen. Interestingly, the book includes a half dozen celebrity (secondary) characters such as Courtney Love, Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise and Britney Spears. There are also dozens of pop culture references, including obvious references to Fight Club.

Sony has the rights to make the book into a movie, Chris Weitz will be the producer of it for Columbia Pictures. [1][2][3] Is coming out in 2007 and will be staring Jack Black and Kate Hudson.[4]

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