@Felix
I'm reading 'The Game' right now
It is very 'entertaining', but I honestly don't think too much of it is 'hard', 'useful' knowledge or technique.
@ Lost Drifter
Have you read 'The Game' book?
I don't think anyone with a modicum of common social knowledge would take it's contents as 'fact'!
But it is entertaining, and does offer up some good general points, such as:
1) People are often very concentrated on their own nervousness and this can push away potential mates.
2) People do not often 'prepared' to speak to people, and this can show as them being uninteresting, foolish, and/or ignorant.
3) By channeling excess nervous energy into something constructive (perhaps not as the 'tricks' and 'shows' that the characters do in the book, but something personal to them) a person can overcome a measure of their own social debilitation.
4) Sex isn't the end-all reward, and can and will be a hollow victory without substance behind it.
Honestly, I am finding the book mostly a 'crazy' road-trip type story, but beneath, it tells about how the main character gets the attention and the sex, but it doesn't really satisfy his needs, because it is unsubstantiated.
I actually feel kind of bad for everyone in the book. They have all the sex & attention they could want, but it's built on tricks and shows, not real, concrete relationships of any kind. And as it goes on, the characters discover this more and more. It's really a sort of 'growing up' book, under all the seduction 'technique', as the characters do seem to realize the folly of all the empty sex and relationships after a while.
I'm looking forward to finishing it, and I hope that I have changed your mind about reading it, because it has helped me a bit with my own 'nervous energy' problem.
Give it a try.