Advising anyone NOT to read something is terrible advise.

Read everything but read it with an open mind and draw your own conclusions from it. Your a conscious being, you have the ability to think for yourself, use that ability.

Adapt what is useful,
Reject what is useless,
and add what is specifically your own. - Bruce Lee.

I read The Game nearly 6 years ago and I can definitely say it was one of the sparks that lit the fires of great change. Without reading it I would not be the man I am today, and I like the man I am today.