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{{quote|"Those who have read the early drafts of this book have all asked the same questions: 'Is this true?' 'Did it really happen?' 'Are these guys for real?' [[Genre Savvy|Thus, I find it neccessary to employ an old literal device...]] [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer|The following is a true story. It really happened."]]|Neil Strauss, [[Reality Is Unrealistic|because the book]] [[Cloudcuckooland|is really that weird.]]}}
''The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists'' is a 2005 book that explains the techniques and concepts used by a society of pickup artists living within the United States, written in the form of a novel instead of a typical self-help book. Using himself as an example, former ''Rolling Stone'' and ''New York Times'' writer Neil Strauss tells the story of his transformation from an AFC (an "Average Frustrated Chump") to one of the greatest pickup artists in the world.
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* [[All Women Are Lustful]] / [[All Women Are Prudes]]: Discussed, the PUA artists claim that the former is the truth, but women have a last minute anti-slut defense mechanism that puts the latter as a facade, and the key is to appease the former.
* [[Assimilation Plot]]: [[Zig Zagged]], possibly Deconstructed. The assimilation is unconscious and inadvertent. Everyone wants to mirror the top pickup artists, soon becoming what Neil called, "social robots."
* [[Being Evil Sucks|Being a PUA Sucks]]: Not an opinion which Style himself completely submits to, but it is more or less the conclusion the book leads up to.
* [[Camp Straight]]: Mystery specializes in "peacocking", which is wearing deliberately ridiculous clothing (such as tophats, feather boas, etc.) in order to attract women.
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* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Katya
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: All the pickup artists, but Tyler Durden and Papa take the cake.
* [[Mental Fusion]]: Tyler Durden practically teaches the students to BECOME Style.
* [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]]: The author writes this in the intro. Who can blame him?
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Neil one time thinks whether Extramask is really crazy or just trying to be funny.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Neil Strauss tries to portray himself as this. Any self-criticism or sense of self-awareness in regards to the many questionable or simply idiotic actions he undertakes is remarkably absent.
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: Mystery, to an extent.
* [[Quest for Sex]]
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This is what stems from Strauss' [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]], as he details several situations that he later admits seem too ridiculous to be true. He explains how he was stopped with three other pickup artists at a military checkpoint in Yugoslavia without a passport (and thought he was going to be shot on sight by the guards), expresses disbelief at being able to seduce [[Britney Spears]] and steal women from Scott Baio and Andy Dick, and later picks up a woman from a Russian casino while her boyfriend and security look on angrily.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: All the PUAs out of which Strauss is just one feel the need to repeat endlessly the man has to approach all women worthy of interest, even if he gets rejected hundreds of times, to build up a thick skin and to get a sizable number of female contacts [[A Million Is a Statistic|by the law of numbers]], the more unattainable the woman is, the greater the heroism into approaching her. Now let the poor guy [[Suicidal Overconfidence|think]] ''[[Suicidal Overconfidence|unattainable]]'' [[Suicidal Overconfidence|literally]] [[Too Dumb to Live|and approach Angela Merkel or Carla Bruni-Sarkozy]].
* [[Sensei for Scoundrels]]
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