The game : penetrating the secret society of pick-up artists

"The funniest book I have read this year." Tony Parsons The Game recounts the incredible adventures of an everyday man who transforms himself from a shy, awkward writer into the quick-witted, smooth-talking Style, a character irresistible to women. But just when life is better than he could have ever dreamed (he uses his techniques on Britney Spears, receives life coaching from Tom Cruise, moves into a mansion with Courtney Love and is officially voted the World's Number One Pickup Artist) he falls head over heels for a woman who can beat him at his own game. (source: Bol.de) ϡ쯦랠 Neil Strauss chanced upon the on-line world of the pick-up artist, an internet community of self-styled players who believe it is possible to pick up women by following a prescribed set of rules and techniques. A portrait of a mad, self-referential society in the process of slow implosion, showing how we interact as humans