This ugly-duckling tale will affect different readers in different ways, depending on their degree of cynicism: some will be awed by Strauss's m nage-trois snowball scene, while others will suspect it was cribbed from a third-rate porno Strauss watched in his pre-macking days.When his story begins Strauss is, well, a Neil: an unconfident, self-described AFC (average frustrated chump). The Game is his long, often tedious but hilarious account of how he did it. But a few years ago, a distraught Strauss decided he was a loser with women and set about transforming himself into the world's greatest pick-up artist.

Like many New York women, I have always gone for balding, pale guys because they're grateful and good in bed. Reviewed by Amy SohnI never dated Neil Strauss, but I dated guys like him.

The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of this generation. And then things really start to get strange-and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade-guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. They live together in houses known as Projects. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair.

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