The Game Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Arttists
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ALSO BY NEIL STRAUSS The Long Hard Road Out of Hell WITH MARILYN MANSON The Dirt WITH MOTLEY CRUE How to Make Love Like a Porn Star WITH JENNA JAMESON Don't Try This at Home WITH DAVE NAVARRO THE GAME P E N E T R A T I N G THE SECRET SOCIETY OF PICKUP ARTISTS Neil Strauss Regan Books An Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers Cover silhouettes are from the following fonts :Darrian's Sexy Silhouettes by © Darrian (http://westwood.fortunecity.com/cerruti/445/), Subeve by © Sub Communications (http://www.subtitude.com),NorpIcons 1 and Norp Icons 2 by © DJ Monkeyboy (http://www.djmonkeyboy.com). "The Randall Knife": Words and Music by Guy Clark © 1983 EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. and GSC MUSIC. All Rights Controlled and Administered by EMI APRIL MUSIC INC. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. Used by Permission. In order to protect the identity of some women and members of the community, the names and identifying characteristics of a small number of incidental characters in this book have been changed, and three minor characters are composites. THE GAME COPYRIGHT © 200 5 BY N E I L STRAUSS. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. HarperCollins books may be purchased for educational, business, or sales promotional use. For information please write: Special Markets Department, HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022. FIRST EDITION Art direction and design by Michelle Ishay / Richard Ljoenes Cover design by Richard Ljoenes Interior design by Kris Tobiassen / Richard Ljoenes Interior illustrations by Bernard Chang Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for. ISBN 0-06-055473-8 05 06 07 08 09 QWK 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Dedicated to the thousands of people I talked to in bars, clubs, malls, airports, grocery stores, subways, and elevators over the last two years. If you are reading this, I want you to know that I wasn't running game on you. I was being sincere. Really. You were different. "I COULD NOT BECOME ANYTHING: N E I T H E R BAD NOR G O O D , N E I T H E R A SCOUNDREL N O R AN H O N E S T MAN, N E I T H E R A H E R O N O R AN INSECT. AND N O W I AM EKING OUT MY DAYS IN MY CORNER, TAUNTING MYSELF W I T H T H E B I T T E R A N D E N T I R E L Y USELESS CONSOLATION THAT AN INTELLIGENT MAN CANNOT SERIOUSLY B E C O M E A N Y T H I N G ; THAT ONLY A FOOL CAN BECOME S O M E T H I N G . " F Y O D O R D O S T O E V S K Y , Notes from Underground Those who have read early drafts of this book have all asked the same questions: IS THIS TRUE? DID IT REALLY HAPPEN ? ARE THESE GUYS FOR REAL? Yüklə 2,79 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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