After all everyone loves a reformed sinner, right? I mean, shit, the book itself enforces this view – its white faux-leather Bible stylings is the literal opposite of The Game’s presentation. I mean, first Neil Strauss becomes famous 1 for writing a book that taught millions of dudes to try to use Svengali-esque techniques to get laid and now he’s writing about leaving it all behind and embracing monogamy? So clearly now he’s making up for his past sins, right? Like that’s not part of every self-help guru’s progression. It’s one that’s fairly easy to be cynical about. So full disclosure: I was given a free copy of The Truth for review, I’ve hung out with Neil and, y’know, I’m a former pick-up artist myself. Or you over there in the back.)īut since today is also Back to the Future day, I thought it would be appropriate enough to start with a book related to my past – Neil Strauss’ The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships. This’ll be a somewhat irregular feature since a) I only have so many hours in the day and b) my to-read pile is fucking huge and and c) if I don’t like something, I tend to just not review it unless it’s egregiously bad and I can get some funny out of it. I’ve been sent a number of books by people hoping I’d read and give them a review and it seems a shame to not actually dig in to a few of them. But since it’s the week of the release of my new book, I’ve got books on the brain. It’s Wednesday, which is usually the Open Thread day.
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