The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed [Hardcover]

Mystery (Author), Chris Odom (Author), Neil Strauss (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2007

"One of the most admired men in the world of seduction" (The New York Times) teaches average guys how to approach, attract and begin intimate relationships with beautiful women

For every man who always wondered why some guys have all the luck, Mystery, considered by many to be the world's greatest pickup artist, finally reveals his secrets for finding and forming relationships with some of the world's most beautiful women. Mystery gained mainstream attention for his role in Neil Strauss's New York Times bestselling exposé, The Game. Now he has written the definitive handbook on the art of the pickup.

He developed his unique method over years of observing social dynamics and interacting with women in clubs to learn how to overcome the guard shield that many women use to deflect come-ons from "average frustrated chumps."

His tips include:
*Give more attention to her less attractive friend at first, so your target will get jealous and try to win your attention.
*Always approach a target within 3 seconds of noticing her. If a woman senses your hesitation, her perception of your value will be lower.
*Don't be picky. Approach as many groups of people in a bar as you can and entertain them with fun conversation. As you move about the room, positive perception of you will grow. Now it's easy to meet anyone you want.
*Smile. Guys who don't get laid, don't smile.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Never at risk of being called humble, Mystery (aka Erik von Markovik), heralded as one of the best pick-up artists in the country, has created a science of seduction. His meticulously researched system, the "Mystery Method," offers advice to men of every ilk, along with complex charts, social science jargon (e.g., Dynamic Social Homostasis and DHV—Demonstrations of Higher Value) and potty humor Mystery comes off as forceful, provocative and excessively arrogant, but one thing is clear: he's good at what he does. You'll laugh, you'll scoff, but in the end, you'll probably learn something. (Feb.)
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312360118
• ISBN-13: 978-0312360115
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (176 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Relationships > Dating
  • #11 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Relationships > Mate Seeking
  • #41 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Sex

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22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The book that started it all, November 20, 2009

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L. M. Barber - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed (Hardcover)

In this crowded genre, Mystery's book is the best out there for attracting and influencing women the first time you meet them. It's full of its own jargon, charts, basically everything you need to know on picking up any woman the first time you meet them. Very analytical for the reasons why things work, or fall flat. Some of the techniques are common sense to corny, questionable, and manipulative. Regardless, simply pick and choose what would work best for you. A must own book for smoothing your style with the ladies.

To fully appreciate how it works, buy The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

For the upper hand with women in relationships, both mentally and financially , you should also get The Professional Bachelor Dating Guide - How to Exploit Her Inner Psycho. Besides dating, it lays out how to creating asset protection if you're planning marriage.

281 of 355 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative, but It won't make you happy..., September 28, 2007

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B. Henrikson - See all my reviews
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I'll start off saying that this book is worth reading because it will teach you about people, both men and women. Any book that is ranked #27 at amazon that is about THIS topic is obviously special. There are many books that promise guys sex with beautiful women, but few make it in the top 10000, let alone the top 100. What makes this one different?

I think because it explains how mating in human beings works in a progression and from an evolutionary psychology standpoint, while at the same time applying it to the bar/club/party scene.

The idea is this: High quality women look for high quality men. They won't have sex with you until they see you as high quality. This means you either have to actually BE high quality, or you have to give the illusion of being high quality. This book teaches you to mostly do the 2nd, not the 1st.

Peacocking, memorizing canned material, learning palm reading and magic tricks, pretending to have lots of friends and women, telling fictional stories as the truth, these things don't make you higher quality. They only create the illusion. This makes sense, after all, the author is a professional illusionist.

If you want a higher-quality woman LONG TERM, make yourself higher quality. This book mostly teaches you how to fake it long enough to get them into bed.

This method, if followed diligently and practiced A LOT, may get you in bed with some 10s. But it won't last because eventually the real you and the real her will surface and there will be no more game, just an awkward incompatibility.

I would much rather be with a 7 who is a good person, intelligent, and loyal, than a 10 who is spoiled, thinks the world owes her a living because of her beauty, and will soon cheat on you (and how could she not, she has male-10s offering her sex 24/7 - are you THAT great she would turn them all down?).

If you want sex in a relationship that will make you happy, it will probably be with someone who is about as good quality as you are. That is the only way you will both appreciate each other long term and stay loyal to each other.

139 of 182 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not just for pick up artists, March 17, 2007

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Michael P. Maslanka (dallas, texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed (Hardcover)

This short book is about being persuasive and asserting influence. If you peel away the title,though, it could be about marketing and closing any sale: don't be needy; be mentally able to walk away from any deal; understand the value of having a high social proof; invest others in you; develop a process, not a one liner. It has some good stuff about how our brains are wired and why. And, having read Strauss's book, I believe that Mystery and his method works for a PUA but it sounds like a lot of work, which maybe why he claims that there is only 4 to 10 hours between meeting and congress. The book is well written and makes good use of charts, although the bullet points are overdone---like apricot jam spread on toast, a little can go a long way. A book that anyone who persuades for a living should ,well, pick up.