The Game (book)
| Author | Neil Strauss |
|---|---|
| Subject | Pickup-artist subculture |
| Publisher | ReganBooks |
| Publication date | 2005
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The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (2005) is the book that made the seduction community a public story. Strauss writes as "Style," student of Mystery. It is the source civilians mean when they say "PUA."
Use it as history and ethnography. Do not use it as a 2020s how-to; the club-routine layer is dated, the anxiety and social-proof observations are not.