Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46985 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 70 pages

Customer Reviews

original idea, disappointing result
Why not apply modern communication techniques to seduction? This book instantly caught my interest for this obvious yet so far untried idea. Finding great pleasure in communicating, and particularly in interacting with the charming half of humanity, I found this book too interesting to resist buying.

It is for that originality alone that I will grant it two crowns. Beyond that, I find it a shattering disappointment. If you need more confidence for approaching women, then you need more confidence in general. The author seems to display self-confidence in abundance, but that alone won't help any reader. Far better guides for this end would be 'Awaken the Giant Within' by Anthony Robbins or 'Frogs into Princes' by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. For actually researched information about the psychology of seduction it is a better idea to turn to 'How to Make Anyone Fall in Love with You' by Leil Lowndes.

What irritated me most is the author's treatment of Neurolinguistic Programming. This useful set of methods the author uses rather unconvincingly. I say that by comparing this book to other works, e.g. to 'Trance-Formations' by Bandler and Grinder, who actually use the very same communication techniques they are teaching.

If you work in sales or training or in any other occupation that requires accomplished communication competence and then take a look into this work, you will be unimpressed, possibly even disgusted. If you have no such previous knowledge and wish to have more interaction skills with women, then there are infinetely better sources than this one. Better than reading a book at home however, is to go out, remind yourself that women have a need for communication, too, and then talk with them like the interesting people we all are.

Absolute rubbish!
I am astonished and confused by the positive reviews written above.

This book looks as tawdry as it reads. The type font is thoroughly amateurish and makes you immediately think that you have bought something that can only have been self-published.

The author's writing style is rather poor and he comes across as little more than a bitter woman-hater.

He has one or two good ideas alongside some truly awful ones - the 'I'm your secret admirer,' T-shirt one was particularly unimpressive and the fact that he then went on to offer sell me one made me laugh. This suggestion was not his worst, however; breaking down in tears when a woman refuses to kiss you has to take that honour.

As for the NLP and hypnosis techniques... hmm!

This book has one saving grace - it is cheap.

Amazing... amazing... amazing... must get.
Although the title refers to picking up women, this book is much more valuable than for that. My initial purpose was to "pickup women," but I've found that the principles that lie underneath his methods can be applied to practically all aspects of life (developing rapport, making a better workplace, selling more items). The book discusses Neuro-linguistic programming which is used in many self-help and inner power type books and seminars, for example, Anthony Robbins. But in this tiny $20 booklet, you will probably learn more than if you were to shell out hundreds of dollars. There is no fluff in Ross Jeffries' book. It's all method and why it works. Skepticism should abound, just as it should in any other purchase, and perhaps it will still be around after using his methods the first time around. But rest assured, there will be results that first time around. It only gets better each time.