just came across this well layed out and handy to have to refer to although a few things in it i dont agree with
PUA Field Guide

Thanks for this, I am reading it now before tonight's sarging and it is a good read.

Hmm hm hm hm Hmmmmmmmm.... I'm not so convinced.

I'm endlessly amazed by the world of pick up, and by how many comparisons you could draw between this and any other body of social science. Pick Up is similar to such a science that you might study at University in so many ways - from different practitioners who argue the pros and cons of different styles of game, all underpinned by lectures, seminars and lengthy books which go into tremendous amounts of detail, acknowledging the contributions of others before taking their own slant on it, adding to it, and progressing the science forward with further experimentation, reporting back and field work.

Further, there are in Pick Up seminal texts which broadly define the whole movement, and from where most beginners would be advised to start. I'm sure I don't need to name them, but they'd include De Angelo's Double Your Dating; Style's The Game; Mystery's The Venusian Arts; Juggler's How to Meet And Connect With Women; Magic Bullets; Tyler Durden's The Blueprint; Gunwitch's writings; and there are probably a handful more which I've forgotten.

Beneath those top layer texts which form the 'core reading' for anyone studying pick up, there are three times as many average texts. Worthy efforts, but examples which didn't offer anything that was ground breaking enough to merit elevation to exceptional status. If this was a reading list for a University course, the books I've listed above would be in bold at the top of the page - and you'd have to race to the library to get them first before some other twat books them out for a fortnight leaving you to cram the night before your essay is due in. The rest of the books are listed below those, under the heading 'Extended reading' - and they've been taken out of the library maybe twice in the last five years.

This particular book is one of those average texts. It doesn't offer anything new, nothing groundbreaking or exciting. It doesn't even explain anything in a new and effective way. It wants to be a 'comprehensive guide'. It isn't. Its a rehash of Mystery Method. That's pretty much all I can find here, with references to AMOGs, kino, chick crack, 'Openers, Routines, Gambits', etc etc. When you think of what would be A Comprehensive Guide to Pick Up, you think of something like a text book with individual chapters including broad overviews of different forms and schools of game, each boiled down to the essentials, summarised in 20 pages or so. This book isn't that at all. Its a comprehensive guide to Mystery Method. But - isn't that was The Mystery Method was for???

The introduction begins by seeking 'a definitive guide', a 'comprehensive guide' which could be turned too 'in the field'. But that's thing - its 125 pages long. Forgive me for being nitpickity, but there's no way I'm carting 125 pages of print around town with me!

This strikes me, therefore, as the work of someone who would love to write like a pick up artist. They'd love to write a book telling guys everywhere 'here's how I get loads of girls - you can be like me too if you do this...'

I'll stick to my Juggler for now!

Nb, Still thanks for the link Bushido! As much as I've ripped it apart, its always good to be offered new things to read!

Hey thanks man, I had no idea what to read so was just reading general stuff. It is good to have some pointers, I am like an intellectual dude so I will try to get hold of some of this stuff. Any ideas guys where I should go to get the 'core reading' for free off the net?

PM me your email and I'll send you a load back.

Thanks covert a very thorough and interesting evaluation, it is exactly true how this is a science and things will be constantly added and new viewpoints and theories given. I just happened to stumble across it and i have to agree with everything you say, just thought it could have been of some help. Also you have reminded me that it is what works for the individual so i need to go out and find my own way of doing things, develop my own personal game whilst using some of these core principles.

Totally spot on bushy mate. I've always thought that - don't take one single guru and mould your game around that style. Take as many bits from as many different theorists as you like, and fit them around whatever makes you most comfortable.

100% agree with Covert! That's always been my take. Take as much as you can from different sources. Field test it. Find out what works for you. Then argument it into your game. Smash!

MB, we need to get together soon man! Any plans to head up norf any time soon?