So I've been offline alot recently but I finally got around to ordering The Pickup Artist the new Mystery book. And honestly, Mystery and Lovedrop come off as the deuschiest, nerdiest, arrogant scumbags on the fucking planet. I'm sorry this dude lost it after Mystery Method and went straight down hill.
1) They chode on every
PUA guy that is now not part of the Venusian Arts crew, why, because "professional" pickup artists that don't start their own company make like $200 a week, so rather than gloryboy around with mystery like Lovedrop does (who I guarantee wouldn't not get laid without picking up Mystery's scraps), they went off on their own and Mystery and lovedrop just shit on them every chance they get. It's totally fake and contrived too the way they attempt to incorporate whatever they can along with the storyline.
2)The whole story line is basically how a bunch of internet dudes wound up living a millionaires lifestyle in Miami and then showboating out to their readers how much grade a model puss they're rakin in . **newsflash** rich people get laid. Some of the storyline I really wanted to laugh at too, I wanted to be able to enjoy it because at the core some of it was really good stories, but the whole whiny braggadocio of Lovedrop and Mystery and whoever the editor was that had to clean up what I'm sure was an all-out mess of jumbled thoughts totally ruined any enjoyable experience of it. I seriously think these guys spent way too much time over the years around coke addicted models (from the story btw) and lecturing to their fanboys at VA bootcamps that they forgot what it is like to talk like a normal human being. The tone as the presumption that you're a fanboy that laps up everything your alpha dog throws at you, when you're not they just come off like weasels with faux-bravado.
3) It desperately attempts at re-creating "The Game" with a different story line. The problem is Neal Strauss was a journalist and a professional writer. And Mystery and Lovedrop clearly are not. Rather than giving you that male sense of adventure and camaraderie we get Mystery explaining his exquisite tastes, expensive cars, the decor of his miami mansion, and all the coke addicted puss he swims in once he finally found a little bit of money. Oh and forget about any of that comraderie of men meeting up to exchange tips, you, the reader, are similied with "Adam" the 35 year old naive loner who gets to visit, "FOR A PRICE!!!" (actual quote from the book ftw!) the
PUA-god at his miami mansion and worship all the incoherent ramblings first hand for a whole entire weekend before being sent home to his solitude mundane lifestyle.
4) Papa was the money behind project hollywood, you know the one Mystery got laid a whole 9 times at and formed the basis of the mystery method. That's fine actually, because the Mystery Method actually had some humility and his theories held alot of value. Now in Miami, Mystery picks up a new rich fanboy, Matador, who was the new money behind project Miami.
So rather than a tale of a determined average virgin discovering social rewarding concepts through rigorous trial and error, we actually have a very charismatic fellow who convinced social awkward rich kids over the internet to invest in properties in the most exclusive celebrity party towns in the country, and in return they would learn to become masters just like him. Round 1 his theories begin taking off, and he actually pulls a few perfect 10 models he so long sought validation from. Round 2 he's a published author, featured prominently in a best selling novel, is charging $5000 a pop to beta males for a whole weekend of seminars, and rated number #1 pickup artist in the world, all of which he show boats and brags to coke addicted models hoping to score a hit (all of this comes directly from the book, once again, in fact, they even take a special section to justify the various "
PUA" concepts it involved). While living in a mansion with jaguars and bentleys out front just a few blocks from the biggest party areas in Miami ("not a single car is worth less than 100 fucking thousand dollars brah!", we actually see him starting to pull girls on a regular basis.
If you didn't catch that, here it again: ALL OF MYSTERY'S SUCCESSES INVOLVE HIM AS A RICH CELEBRITY.
And he makes very well sure the girls know who he is and what he does and what he drives and where he lives and how much he charges and how much his curtains are worth and blah blah blah....
So if he has openers like "Have you ever taken a dump in a gold toilet?", please just keep in mind the success value directly hinges on the Rich + Celebrity quotient going on with the openee.
5) There is pretty much no social concepts introduced. This is not a pickup book. True there are a few re-hashed concepts between the pages and we get buzzwords like "Matadors Micro-calibrated Kiss gambit" (WTF???), but other than that, it's pretty much a word for word rehash of the original mystery method. Matador actually seems like a cool guy, which its a shame to see him in that crew but I can understand why. Lovedrop is just an absolute tool with nothing of original value to say. This was just a self serving opportunity, hoping to live up to Neil Strauss while reliving their glory days as rich kids on somebody else's daddy's dime.
If I really wanted to hear some rich kid talk about how the only way he scores is from traveling around on his daddy's money in the finest cars, boats, and mansions, I would call my old college roomate who never got laid once at college because he was outside of his money. At least he would be more than happy to lecture me 1 on 1 for free (hmm.. business opp???)
So here's the entire book synopsis in just one line:
Money = Pussy
Shocking. So got to work, get educated, and make some money. If that's the only thing people get from this book they'll probably walk away better from it.
Other than that, Mystery's career is over. Too bad he wasn't like David D and automated his business because once the bootcamp money dries up he's hopeless.
The Pickup Artist - My Review
