"You bought me a book on how to pick up women?!?"

[NotQuiteCockney]

I bought DH The Game for Xmas. He's started reading it, and is offended and/or boggled that I bought him a book on men picking up women.

I bought it because I thought it looked interesting, and I enjoyed the excerpts I had read.

He believes this gift is as "inappropriate" as the Abs and Glutes tape he bought me one year ... any votes?

ROFL - that book looks fab. I'm going to buy it for myself when I order my dads present on Amazon this afternoon. NO way am I letting my DH get his sticky paws on it though - don't want him to know tricks!

If I'd been given the female version of it by my DH I'd have been chuffed that he wasn't intimidated by me being able to chat men up and I would have thought it was a funny read.

I plan to give this book to my daughters.

I wouldn't buy it for my DH but then that's just me.. and all my neuroses.. . Are you trying to get rid, perchance?

No, I'm happy with DH. Didn't mean it in a pointed way, at all!

The techniques inside seem pretty sad, tbh. But it looks like a good read.

Maybe he's a tad insecure, seems a perfectly fine book to give someone. Is he a sensitive soul?

tlb

I can see why he's miffed (especially as from what I hear the methods are very manipulative and disrespectful).

Once I broke up with a boyfriend and in a fit of pique he bought me the most dreadful book - I still have it as it's so hilarious - called "How to meet interesting men"! (He conveniently forgot that I'd dumped him not for being dull, but because he had told me he was in love with his ex... )

Anyway I did take it as an insult...

Well, yes, if I was dumping him, he'd be right to be offended. But I'm not!

And anyway, the book isn't a manual on picking up women, it's a novel about the adventures of someone who gets drawn into all that.

(And it wasn't the only gift I got him for Xmas, or even the only book!)

The methods are (as you'd expect) horrid and manipulative. Shocker.

I wondered where i knew the author's name from- he wrote 'How to Make Love Like a Porn Star' with Jenna Jameson.

Oooooohhhh well I did think it was a manual, sorry. Maybe he does too?

Oh, ugh, really, DetentionGrrrl?

Porn stars f*£k, not make love.

snowleapord, he knows it's not a manual! I think he's just aghast at the whole thing, tbh.

There's a technique in there, for getting laid, that involves keeping trying more and more until the woman says no. DH is horrified that someone thinks this is a normal thing to do. I'm startled (but quite touched) that he's so horrified, tbh.

i have the Jenna Jameson book- not because i am a fan ( i find her repellant truth be told) just because i'm interested in people. It's a autobiography, despite the title. (and not very well written either)

A tight arse? I bought him quite a few presents - not just this book!

Oh god I am sick of this book. DH keeps using terms from it, and shouting pick-up advice to people on TV. Well, not shouting exactly, but "go on, neg her!" is still a weird thing to say to the telly.

Still, it looks like a good read, and he's churning through it.

NQC - after my post earlier in the week I "had" to buy this from Amazon. Both DH and I were laughing at it last night, just on chapter 2 at the moment. Think I'm picking up tips too about the men thing although it's slightly different.

Personally, I like the fact that they "Play" all the women who normally have men fawning all over them (not my type) by "neg-ging" them, very funny.

I've always thought it was time geeks stood a chance!

A chance to ... what ... be horrible? Sleep with weird women with fake boobs?

I dunno, I've always dated geek, lived geek, etc etc, and goodness knows I like geeks. I'm just not sure NLP stylee pick-up techniques are an improvement on the basic geek model.

get what you mean NQC - am only on 2nd chapter so not that far yet, but I'm kind of rooting for the geeks.

I'm just thinking though that surely we could all do with a bit of NLP style to get over our own nervousness at important times - or is that just me?

Kind of hoping the geeks in the book find lovely normal women without a game plan at the end - somehow doubt it though!

I believe the main character does fine, and yeah, he gets past the "game" thing, from the excerpts I read before.

I used to work with a lot of geeks who were mad for bar girls (as in, girls working in bars, not the prostitute sense), and followed them around buying them drinks etc all the time. Most tiresome.

I'm not sure how shoehorning the word "penis" into "happiness" would help me in my daily life, but if you have any tips ...

lol - I'll let you know when I've read it all!

DH finished it, so now I'm on it. I'm enjoying it so far, I'm only a few chapters in.

I've read some of it, got bored half way through. I thought it looked interesting too, found it wasn't etc but no, I don't think 'it's a book on how to pick up women' it isn't, not really.

I'm about a hundred pages in, it's ok. Not that well written, and the main character is annoying me, but hey. The stories are reasonably interesting.

OMG, why on earth should I care about pathetic suicidal geeks with bad fashion sense? I think I've lost interest ...