i first heard about this book on a boat to sweden. there was a young norweigan sailor on there who i was having a few drinks with at the bar. he had on these crazy boots that had 4 or 5 inch soles, something (what i discovered after reading the book) like what mystery would wear, and he'd spiked his hair up with gel. he was going on about it, how it had changed his life. how he used to be a nerd but now had these amazing powers and had managed to have 2 threesomes after about a year of practice. in my drunken state this all sounded great, plus there were lots of scandinavian females dancing all nasty on the dancefloor. my interests were piqued. got nicely sauced up and went to bed. forgot about it all the next day. after a week or two, i was in a bookshop in stockholm and saw the book on the best seller's table, my memory was jogged, i opened it up, had a quick leaf through, 'nice' i thought to myself. but at the time i was living with a gf there so it was useless. put it to the back of my mind again and didn't think about it for half a year or so. till round about the time when the gf left me. yeah, must have been about then. i googled it and found a pdf, thought why not, and read it in 2 days.
was quite the page turner, made it all sound fairly simple. just go out and learn how to not feel bad if you make a tit of yourself. one of the first steps on the road to becoming a pua was to go to a public place and say hi to every female you see. learning how to deal with rejection n stuff... i don't think it ever even crossed my mind to actually go out and try any of the steps. felt too unnatural. too weird.
actually, long story short. i dl'ed a torrent or two of videos, audio and documents (mostly from the 'top' guys) and tried to see if there was anything useful in there. the more and more i read, the more i realised that a lot of it was common sense and shit that a lot of us do naturally anyway. and the stuff that didn't fit into that was just kind of weird and icky. i have a feeling i've negged a few girls before. but not in a conscious 'ha, i'll lower her self esteem so she feels like she has to prove something' way. more as just a kind of joke, which they laughed at. in fact thats pretty much the steez that works, making em laugh and being natural. im not bad at being silly n cracking jokes, and its something that just happens without having to think about it. and i think that's my problem with this whole thing, the way this system is supposed to work requires a certain amount of planning and canned responses n stuff. in short, that's just wack. wack wack wack.