Neil Strauss, in the book, The Game, wrote many chapters about a woman named Lisa Leveridge. Lisa Leveridge is a guitarist, not a rock star, as I guarantee most of you reading this would have absolutely no idea who she is outside of being Neil's girlfriend at one time, and playing in some band that Courtney Love was in, but in the book, The Game, she also doubles as Neil's love interest. As the girl who was going to help him craft his story line.
Neil had a story he wanted to tell about the pick up community which was a basic Joseph Campbell story which classically goes through a couple of stages which I will tell you now. The first stage of the book is the exposition where a down and out chump lives an irrelevant life before he gets shit on by everyone. Shows lots o extreme examples of how much his life sucks, the first part of The Game, where he talks about how he was bad with women even though he wasn't. The protagonist has a revelation that changes his life, whether it's an event or meeting someone, life gets progressively better, pushing the protagonist out of his comfort zone, lots of extreme examples of how his new life is awesome and kicks ass, cracks form around him, but he is initially oblivious to it because of all the changes.
The protagonist has a revelation that all that glitters isn't gold, where Neil decides that banging a lot of chicks isn't good, realizes that he must find a balance between being a self-absorbed asshole and a chump that gets shit on, and then the protagonist lives a happy and fruitful life where he settles down with a girl less hot, but with more substance. Basically, it sounds like The Game, except for this little problem. Neil was cheating on Lisa the entire time, which you would think kind of changes the story. If the story is being a player and sleeping with a lot of girls and being dishonest and being obsessed with sex isn't a good thing and you have to grow up and you know, settle down with the person you think you were meant to be with, then you probably shouldn't cheat on them, or you should write--epilogue--this didn't work out because once I had opened the Pandora's box of being able to bang chicks, then I basically told this girl Kimmy in Las Vegas, that Mystery had banged her two sisters, that she was my girlfriend while I was dating with Lisa--and I'm Neil Strauss.
So it's kind of hypocritical to write this whole book that's supposedly non-fiction where you learn this life lesson when you didn't even actually learn the life lesson. You should write a book that said, yes, I was into the player lifestyle and now I'm never going back and I'm now obsessed with threesomes and this, that or the other which would be more representative of what Neil Strauss does, but for some reason he decided that he was going to write this lesson because it would sell more books and we got the portrait of Neil that is currently out there instead of who he actually is.
About the Author
Justin Cane is a writer for howtopickupgirlslies.com and if you'd like to know more info on the game by Neil Strauss and the mystery method please visit that site.
Justin Cane
View the Original article