The Mystery Method: How to Get Beautiful Women Into Bed (Hardcover)

by Mystery (Author), Lovedrop (Author), Neil Strauss (Foreword) "If teachers and parents taught subjects in their order of importance to the males receiving their "wisdom," history lessons wouldn't invoke Greek philosophers and ancient..." (more)
Key Phrases: attraction circuitry, shotgun neg, dynamic social homeostasis, Seven-Hour Rule, Middle English, Don Juan (more...)

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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 (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312360118
• ISBN-13: 978-0312360115
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (150 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #362 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommeneded for Pick-up Artists in training, June 28, 2009

By	Greg Berstile - See all my reviews

Out of all of the books and programs I've bought on seduction and PUA, the Mystery Method is by far the most systematic, on-target book of techniques I've read. There are other good how-to books on the subject, but this one stands apart.

The Mystery Method breaks down the various phases of an interaction from first meeting a woman to following up with a day 2 and then closing the deal. Each phase of the progression is covered in detail so you understand what is happening, why its happening and what to do to transition from one phase to the next.

I was skeptical at first because the book seemed to take something a fluid and dynamic as a conversation and essentially apply a programming mentality to it. I realized that you can program conversations with certain body language and phrases that help steer the conversation. You keep pushing one phase into the next until you get a desirable outcome.

In some ways the Method can take the fun out of meeting women because you're thinking about how to transition from one phase to the next, but eventually I stopped thinking about that and just enjoyed the interactions. I guess I could say I "internatilized" the techniques to a degree that I was just going what I was taught without having to think about it. That took a few months and a lot of practice, but eventually I was having more success with women.

Highly recommended for PUAs in training.

125 of 159 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Michael P. Maslanka (dallas, texas United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sociologically Brilliant, October 27, 2007

By	Ben Stragel "Ben" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews

"Mystery" could easily re-pen this work as a sociology of human mating in the 21st century. Because of the frankness of the point of the book, to help men get beautiful women into bed, he is able to write honestly about the dynamics of attraction in a world in which our drives don't match our social models. This morally neutral and unapologetically forethwrite manual unveils the reason why both men AND WOMEN find it so difficult to form relationships using what our heads tell us should work. The good news is, the author has developed ways to make attraction work in venues and social settings that actually serve more to hinder relationship than help it. Still, like any self-help manual, it's useless unless you apply it. Learning how to demonstrate the reasons why a women should be interested in you in a short amount of time does take effort and can feel "forced". But, if you are ready to make it happend and stop waiting for it to happen, this book is the fasted way to get started. At least, that's what I've found.