I recently re-read The Game by Neil Strauss, a book that was applauded by both the seduction community and the common man as a celebration of the pickup artist lifestyle with an invitation for every chump to join. In it, style, the protagonist, describes his process from chump to world’s greatest seducer. Through out the story he lays reference to several books he read. This is a list of those books. Left out were references to common literature he uses to support himself as a character.
Page 9 - … a book editor who had stumbled across a document on the Internet call the layguide, short for The How-to-Lay-Girls Guide.
Page 38 - Sure, there is Ovid, the roman poet who wrote The Art of Love…
Page 57 - I read anthologies of women’s sexual fantasies, like Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden…
Page 74 - I had read in a book called Introducing NLP that there is no such thing as failure, only learning lessons.
Page 93 - In the course of my seduction research, I’d read Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
Page 124 - Sure, there’d always beeen a stable of men giving pickup advice, like Eric Weber, whose book How to Pick Up Girls helped start the trend…
Page 124 - That tome was Frogs Into Princes, the classic book on NLP by John Grinder and Richard Bandler.
Page 187 - I’ve been reading Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, and I want to suggest something related.
Page 193 - On her nightstand there was a thin book by a guy named Joel Kramer… I had originally memorized the passage to use as a routine…
Page 220 - And he was whipping through the list of recommended books - from Introducing NLP to Mastering Your Hidden Self - at a furious rate.
Page 271 - One of the most important realizations I’d had in the game came from a Huna self-improvement book that Ross Jeffries had recommended, Mastering Your Hidden Self.
Page 294 - Among the required reading for all PUAs were books on evolutionary theory: The Red Queen by Matt Ridley, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, Sperm Wars by Robin Baker.
Page 309 - The Art of Seduction was classic PUA reading material, along with Green’s other book, The 48 Laws of Power.
Page 365 - I told her the most beautiful love story ever written: “On Seeing the 100 Percent Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” by Haruki Murakami.
Page 430 - He was Eric Weber, the first modern PUA, the writer of the 1970 book that started it all, How to Pick Up Girls, and the subject of the movie with the same name.
If there are any I missed, please let me know.
Wow, I hadn’t noticed how many books he had referenced. Thanks for putting this list together. Looks like I have some new addittions to my reading list:)