Quote: (07-24-2012 11:22 PM)Hades Wrote:
Quote: (07-24-2012 05:33 PM)brianmark Wrote:
I find the book tedious to read! It is exactly the opposite of Bang which is simple and straight forward. Has anyone read this whole book and gotten through all the exercises?
It amazes me how people accept the Mystery Method and anything by Neil Strauss as the Bible! Am I the only one that questions these two guys?
I can't argue with success, and these guys definitely have it. I think that their huge fixation on inner game is just a product of their general narcissism though. The Rules of the Game is basically Strauss's angle, a condensed guide with just the information you need and nothing more. Daily missions and whatnot. I liked reading it.
If you've read "The Game" (I suppose you probably have), you'd see all the unbelievably critical asides that Neil Strauss seems all too happy to elaborate on, about why Mystery has problems, Mystery's daddy issues, why Durden is a psychopath, how Ross Jeffries is a douche, etc. The book fucking opens with Mystery's admittance to a psych ward. I don't care that Strauss is a journalist, indulging in this kind of judgment cannot be healthy, and while it did make a great story it's a shitty testament to the guys who helped you get laid.
Since these guys are (to some degree) social outcasts who learned game late in life (like many), it's probable that they are just bad at socializing with men, which is why they have all these issues in the Project Hollywood House. You would be good to question the way they treat each other but questioning their game is less grounded. As far as game is concerned, these guys are practically wizards. My only criticism of their game is that it's way too indirect and it popularized/feminized the neg.
The book the Game is probably the best selling "pickup" book ever. It is in all the bookstores. It made Neil Strauss rich and made Mystery even more famous. Do you think that Mystery would have had a TV show if it wasn't for that book being so popular? Would Mystery have ever written the Mystery Method. What would Mystery's fate have been without book The Game?
My original question was not about the book The Game, but about Neil's 30 day self improvement book "Rules of the Game". I wanted to know if anyone had gotten through the whole book?