If they've read the book, this obviously means they're interested in the subject-and now you both have something in common.Ī: Rules of the Game is actually two books: the Stylelife Challenge and the Style Diaries. Instead, use it as an opportunity to start a conversation about the game itself and whether it works. His advice: on the rare chance that it happens, don't get scared and scamper off. But he still walked away with her phone number. It's the women who've heard of the book but haven't read it who want to burn it.Īnd actually, a guy at a book signing the other day told me he got caught using one of the openers. Strauss: I've run into some women who've read the book to learn about the male mind, and they've all been positive about it-the book, that is, not the male mind. Perhaps because, when it comes down to it, this is why we're really here.Ī: Do you meet women who have read The Game? What do they think? And with the thousands of people out there you have trained and the many more thousands who have read the book, are women starting to recognize the strategies? Do they ever say, "Hey, you're playing the Game on me"? Once they find out there's a way to learn to be more successful with women-and see evidence that it works-they tend to dive in headfirst. But our society has never given them tools to safely fulfill these desires. It may be because, according to the Kinsey Institute, most men think about sex every two minutes. I've seen college kids drop out of school doctors quit their jobs and celebrities take huge career risks to pursue this knowledge. There's something about the seduction community that sucks people in. Someone else compared it to Donnie Brasco. But, like Michael Corleone, you got pulled back in. I guess that would be point AA-which, come to think of it, I've already been to with Dave Navarro while writing his book.Ī: You write in the introduction to Rules of the Game that you thought The Game was your "last word on the subject," and you were ready to get on with your life. And then I wonder if people are going to stick with me when I go to point whatever-is-after-Z next.
Instead, I wonder why it took me so long to get to point Z. Do you ever wonder how you got from point A to point Z? Neil Strauss, the New York Times bestselling author of The Game, presents Rules of the Game:Ī: Yours has to be one of the strangest career paths in the book business: from rock critic at the New York Times, to cowriter of memoirs with rockers and porn stars, to bestselling seduction guru.