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  • Imitation Leather: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Dey Street Books (October 13, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060898763
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060898762
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.4 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Most Entertaining Book You'll Read on Relationships
By Mofessor on October 13, 2015
Format: Imitation Leather
The Truth starts with an archetypal trajectory—boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes on quest to win girl back—but becomes something curlier and less predictable as it goes along.

With lashings of hedonism and debauchery thrown in for good measure, The Truth is based on Strauss’ mission to discover whether monogamy, faithfulness, and commitment make sense in the modern world. The book is as high spirited as you might expect from someone who wrote The Game, and delves into the underpinnings of sex, relationships and their effect on life, love, and family.

Straddling the line between damning expose and redemption story, there are many times Strauss stares lustfully at self-annihilation. But to its credit, The Truth is not another preachy, earnest treatise on the dangers of sex, nor is it a sentimental journey to 12-step redemption. There have certainly been enough of those. Rather this is a study in how men and women relate to each other, and what it truly means to be in relationship with somebody. Like all the best books, as Strauss swerves between libertine and committed partner, we are simultaneously wincing and somehow wishing we were in the middle of it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsNot What You Expect
By D B on October 13, 2015
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The title for "The Truth" is so shamelessly pretentious that you probably expect to be sidelined with platitudes of common wisdom hard won by the author's failure to obtain anything meaningful in his pickup life.

Instead, what you get is a deep exploration of why he ever felt like he needed pickup in the first place. What drives a person to feel like they have to seek "love" and approval from dozens, hundreds, thousands of other people? Why is it, that when you can supposedly seduce any person in the world into liking you, you still don't like yourself?

The book starts with the author cheating on his girlfriend. He acknowledges that he's scum and checks in to a sex addiction clinic. This first part of the book, you can't wait for him to be taken down a peg, because despite knowing he messed up and genuinely wanting to change...he is resistant and snarky, lecturing people on why they should be able to have their cake and eat it too.

Don't worry, he gets his.

After having his world totally obliterated by an insight he receives in therapy....he retreats further into his own justifications and ideas. He "tries" for several months to change his way of thinking, but the heavy handed shaming and brainwashing of the therapy and approach he is given keeps him from making any real progress at all.

So instead, he does what any internationally known pickup artist would do when faced with their own insecurities and lack of satisfaction in life.

He starts a harem.

And tries swinging,

And a commune,

All the kind of misadventures that people who glorified the Game and think more lovers=more happiness are probably waiting for.

And maybe it would have worked out...Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Review: A Woman's Unexpected Journey of Reading The Truth
By Cathy on October 31, 2015
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I remember stumbling across the author's other book, The Game, a few years ago. I'm a woman and the description of the book immediately made me think of this womanizing ex-coworker of mine, who used to brag about his conquests as if he's reaping the rewards of the unresolved daddy issues of these beautiful women. And it all worked because he knew a thing or two about manipulation and games. Needless to say, I rolled my eyes and move on with my online book shopping never expecting to read any of his books. Recently, an author I do like and subscribe to, sent an email about this book and bits and pieces from the book. I got a bit intrigued and decided to purchase this to diversify my book collection, which is starting to look lopsided subject-wise. When the book arrived, I started to read it and couldn't put it down.

The Truth is intriguing, funny, heartfelt, sometimes annoying and whiny, sometimes makes you want to go up to the author and smack him upside his bald head, and other times you root for him, empathize, and sympathize. And truthfully, you want the happy ending. It is a roller coaster ride of monogamy, psychotherapy, various alternative relationships, orgies, and harems. The author has the writing ability to take you on a journey with him as he bares the entirely human side of him, flaws and all. He is not always like-able but you stick around to see what happens to him. And sprinkled throughout the book are some interesting situations that you wouldn't otherwise witness, some thought provoking questions, and bits and pieces about attachment theory and psychotherapy that the reader can think about and look into while reading this book.

The author has a simplistic style of writing and it is an enjoyable book to read.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsTimeo Danaos et dona ferentes
By KVD on November 20, 2015
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Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

“I fear all Greeks, even those bearing gifts”

-Vergil, the Aeneid

This book is interesting mostly as a character study of its author, Neil Strauss. I read The Game and found fascinating the extent to which he craved respect and admiration from others, and to feel superior to them. The whole book was an exercise in power, in letting everyone know that though he wasn’t good-looking, he was smart enough to manipulate women into sleeping with him anyway, cool enough to socialize with celebrities without being star struck, and talented enough to write for influential publications like the NY Times.

In this book, too, there is no doubt that Strauss is a master manipulator. He writes about feeling dorky, or ashamed, inviting our sympathy and drawing us into the story, making us care. Then he “shows” us that he’s actually not a dork by having lots of threesomes with women, because most people think that having a threesome in itself makes you cool. But now he’s inside our heads, the place he most longs to be – in control of our thoughts and emotions (or so he hopes).

So one of the things about this book is that it is structured like Homer’s Odyssey. Though Strauss mentions Odysseus and James Joyce’s Ulysses, he never explicitly communicates that he actually models the book on the epic poem itself – this is because he wants to feel smarter and more cultured than the people reading his book – it’s his own little private joke on us, to make him feel powerful. And I suppose he thinks that he’s impressing those of us who do get the allusions (witches and guides and siren songs for example) and cute little references (he names his dog Hercules).Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

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