More details on the new book…

The Pickup Artist book (2010, www.ThePickupArtistBook.com) contains pickup knowledge from several veins:

— New writings throughout (obviously)
— Excerpts from Revelation (on Opening, Inner Game, and Humor; about 3% of the new book is excerpted from Revelation.)
— Erik's old writings (his classic posts from ASF, cleaned up and organized for your bookshelf.)

— The book contains a "Bootcamp Handout" as well, with:
 -an IOI/IOD chart,
 -a Ghost/Flame chart,
 -a Neg chart,
 -chapter 2 on Kino Escalation,
 -a DHV/DLV chart,
 -the 13 steps of Group Theory,
 -a bunch of Openers,
 -Mystery's top 10 tips, etc.

The book also contains a story "narrative":
 -The office scene teaches AMOGing,
 -the Strip Club scene teaches strippers,
 -the South Beach chapter teaches buying temperature and club dynamics,
 -the Pleasure Bubble scene teaches how to decorate your pad,
 -and the Party in the Hills chapter contains Mystery's new Universe gambit.

There are various other nuggets throughout, from various writings and interviews. Often the dialogue is based on notes of actual dialogue, and recordings of live pickups.

The purpose of the narrative, being restricted to a series of vignettes, was several:

1) To capture the people as characters. To make you really feel like you are hanging out with Mystery and Matador and all the rest.

2) To capture the spirit of the time. To make you feel like you were really there in Project Miami, or at the Pleasure Bubble. (As if a magical movie camera went back in time to the Project Miami house and captured it into book form, so you could feel as if you were really there.)

3) To teach game.

4) To lampoon ALL the characters, including the three main characters. We discovered that this improved the humor, and improved the characters. It is also in keeping with community literature The characters that I lampooned the most ended up becoming the best characters in the book (see the Rat, for example.)  It just makes the characters more vivid and more funny, more cartoon-like. Like something out of a movie. To shine the light on their flaws. Mystery gets it pretty bad too; see the introduction of the book for one example of this. And Mehow gets it, of course.

Sorry if you got creamed, Mehow }:-) Think of it like South Park or the Simpsons. No one is safe. Mehow, especially, is a great PUA teacher and innovator, and I wholeheartedly recommend his products and training. But Matador did pick on him when we were at Project Miami and the book captures that, as much to lampoon Matador as Mehow. But it was all in good fun – we are all brothers.

Check out Mehow's page at the site for the new book at www.ThePickupArtistBook.com/Mehow

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