Picking up girls in bookstores

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greenlake said:
heh, things didn't turn out how i wanted it yesterday. yup, no bookstore. we went to a party instead. wasn't ready and was a total afc.
This is why understanding your environment is also important, it can completely throw off your game. Parties aren't the easiest places to start off sarging. Ease into sarging at parties after you become confident in other venues.
 

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yea, u're right. i felt arkward at the party. i seem to like quiet, and bright places more. partie is just plain screaming and dancing. and i don't have the urge to do that any of those yet. worse of all, i don't even know which one have a bf and which doesn't.
 

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godsgifttowomen said:
Grab a "Dating For Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to Dating". Walk over to an HB. Hold up the book to the "bad pickup lines" page. Read straight from the book:

you: Hi, what's your sign?
hb: ha um..
you: No? hmmm....
you: Oh! .. Hi, do you come here often?
hb: ...
you: just ****in around ha =)
you: my name's GGTW what's yours?

Try it.. you might be suprised. This is my default opener for book store game.

GGTW
Hey, that sounds funny, I'm going to try that next time I'm at B&N.
 

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Hey, that sounds funny, I'm going to try that next time I'm at B&N.
Just a suggestion, don't use it on a woman that's reading a self help book. ;)
 

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greenlake said:
yea, u're right. i felt arkward at the party. i seem to like quiet, and bright places more. partie is just plain screaming and dancing. and i don't have the urge to do that any of those yet. worse of all, i don't even know which one have a bf and which doesn't.
Here's a suggestion for you, find some places where you feel comfortable then look around. See the women around you? Look at them, approach them, talk to them. They will probably have more in common with you than you realize.
 

Never try to read a woman's mind. It is a scary place. Ignore her confusing signals and mixed messages. Assume she is interested in you and act accordingly.

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Grab a "Dating For Dummies" or "Idiot's Guide to Dating". Walk over to an HB. Hold up the book to the "bad pickup lines" page. Read straight from the book:

you: Hi, what's your sign?
hb: ha um..
you: No? hmmm....
you: Oh! .. Hi, do you come here often?
hb: ...
you: just ****in around ha =)
you: my name's GGTW what's yours?

Try it.. you might be suprised. This is my default opener for book store game.

GGTW
I actually like and approve of this. Very interesting, also funny


-Cod3r
 

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it sounds good... but gimmicky...

you can't really do this more than once can you? otherwise, you become "the guy with the dating for dummies book".

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Delta said:
it sounds good... but gimmicky...

you can't really do this more than once can you? otherwise, you become "the guy with the dating for dummies book".

delta
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

I can see it on an episode of Cops. "Yeah officer he's in the back. He comes here a couple of times a week and grabs the Dating for Dummies book and verbally attacks women asking about pickup lines." There's a foot chase up the escalator and through the food court until he's gang tackled buy a gang of hairy lipped feminazis coming out of the Birkenstock store.

:trouble: "Bad boys, bad boys; what'cha gonna do......" :trouble:
 

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This thread is due for an update. No one has posted on it since 2006.

I'm interested if any of the current generation of posters has experience in approaching in bookstores.

I have done bookstore approaches in my life. Since I am someone interested in reading and writing, I like bookstores. I have always felt like bookstores would be a good fit for me for pickup.

My real life experience in bookstores has been disappointing. During the past decade, I have tried to do approaches in 2 Barnes & Noble locations and one location of a smaller regional chain of bookstores.

I have rarely seen approachable women in either Barnes & Noble or the regional chain. I've done more approaches in the regional chain store than B&N, in part because I've spent more time there.

This past weekend, I did my first approach session at the regional chain bookstore location. I had not done any bookstore approaches since before the pandemic. Immediately after walking in, I saw the most attractive woman I ever saw inside of a bookstore. I did approach her, based upon a notable and unusual hat that she was wearing. It did spark a conversation of about 90 seconds and she mentioned a boyfriend in one of my questions to her. I didn't ask her out and get the IHAB, the boyfriend was mentioned prior to the ask out. The ask out didn't happen and I did not use a boyfriend destroyer line in that situation. The context in which it was mentioned seemed like an actual boyfriend. It's possible I could have pushed harder on that, but didn't.

What have your experiences been like with bookstore approaching?
 

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This thread is due for an update. No one has posted on it since 2006.

I'm interested if any of the current generation of posters has experience in approaching in bookstores.

I have done bookstore approaches in my life. Since I am someone interested in reading and writing, I like bookstores. I have always felt like bookstores would be a good fit for me for pickup.

My real life experience in bookstores has been disappointing. During the past decade, I have tried to do approaches in 2 Barnes & Noble locations and one location of a smaller regional chain of bookstores.

I have rarely seen approachable women in either Barnes & Noble or the regional chain. I've done more approaches in the regional chain store than B&N, in part because I've spent more time there.

This past weekend, I did my first approach session at the regional chain bookstore location. I had not done any bookstore approaches since before the pandemic. Immediately after walking in, I saw the most attractive woman I ever saw inside of a bookstore. I did approach her, based upon a notable and unusual hat that she was wearing. It did spark a conversation of about 90 seconds and she mentioned a boyfriend in one of my questions to her. I didn't ask her out and get the IHAB, the boyfriend was mentioned prior to the ask out. The ask out didn't happen and I did not use a boyfriend destroyer line in that situation. The context in which it was mentioned seemed like an actual boyfriend. It's possible I could have pushed harder on that, but didn't.

What have your experiences been like with bookstore approaching?
Been approaching in Barnes and Noble, I have had some decent experiences but overall quite disappointing. The quality and quantity of approaches has depended on the city I am in.
 

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hi guys,

has any of you here tried to pick up girls in bookstores, let's say Barnes & Noble or Borders? I go to Barnes & Noble once a week every week, i like to hang out there, look at books, get a cup of tea or something and i have noticed there are many good looking girls there, either just looking at books or hanging out in one of those big love chairs and reading. Just once, so far, I attempted to talk to a girl there, she was looking at books so i said something dumb like 'So you like reading books?' to which she replied 'yeah' and looked at me like i was weird.

but anyway, i am having a hard time coming up with things to say to girls there. Any advice?
Comment something like "Oh...don't tell me you are one of THOSE women!" as you take a look at what book she is looking at or what section she is in, and then have something silly to say about women who like that type of stuff, like "I know someone who likes that kind of stuff...she has 10 cats and talks to her plants"
 

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Maybe instead comment on something she is wearing?
situational is basically the only thing i ever do.
I do mostly situational openers but have been doing daygame for ~10 years as I read Roosh's "Day Bang" soon after it came out in 2011. "Day Bang" was the foundation for all my approaches. Bookstores were covered less in "Day Bang" than coffee shops, but many bookstores have coffee shops in them.

I like to open based on something that someone is wearing. I've done that in bookstores and in other non-bar venues.

What I like to open with is, "If you were my sister and it was your birthday, what kind of book would you like me, your brother, to get you?"
This line intrigues me, but I don't want to frame an interaction around brother-sister dynamic. I need her to see me as a sexual being immediately.

you'd be surprised at how social an environment a book store is. It's not at all like any other day time environment.
i've tried several approaches at book stores (borders, barnes and nobles).... none of them worked out.

check out the body language of most of the chicks there... they are NOT looking to meet anyone. they hardly look up. especially at the cafe section.

it's not really the bytch shield either. they've just got blinders on, they're not there to meet anyone.
I lumped these two quotes together because they oppose each other. Yes, a lot of women at bookstores seem like they have blinders on. A good portion of these women likely have boyfriends or husbands already. The regional chain bookstore location I've been to is in a neighborhood that is mainly unmarried people, so it'd be more boyfriends than husbands. I wonder if unattached women in bookstores have blinders on.

Been approaching in Barnes and Noble, I have had some decent experiences but overall quite disappointing. The quality and quantity of approaches has depended on the city I am in.
You are 26, so I assume you've been targeting younger women in bookstores. I didn't start non-bar approaching until I was nearly 30. Most of my non-bar approaching has occurred in my 30s, and targeting women 25-35. I've not seen a lot of attractive 25-35 year old women in bookstores when I've tried bookstore approaching. That's why the incident this past weekend stood out for me. I didn't bookstore approach for years simply because I saw few to no viable approaches in them.
 

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last week I stopped in a bookstore. As I was walking through an aisle, a girl stopped me and complimented me on my jacket (got it at Macys). We chatted a few min, & then I moved on. I have a GF, but if I were single, I’d have probably tried to see if she’d go next door for coffee.
 

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I do mostly situational openers but have been doing daygame for ~10 years as I read Roosh's "Day Bang" soon after it came out in 2011. "Day Bang" was the foundation for all my approaches. Bookstores were covered less in "Day Bang" than coffee shops, but many bookstores have coffee shops in them.

I like to open based on something that someone is wearing. I've done that in bookstores and in other non-bar venues.



This line intrigues me, but I don't want to frame an interaction around brother-sister dynamic. I need her to see me as a sexual being immediately.





I lumped these two quotes together because they oppose each other. Yes, a lot of women at bookstores seem like they have blinders on. A good portion of these women likely have boyfriends or husbands already. The regional chain bookstore location I've been to is in a neighborhood that is mainly unmarried people, so it'd be more boyfriends than husbands. I wonder if unattached women in bookstores have blinders on.



You are 26, so I assume you've been targeting younger women in bookstores. I didn't start non-bar approaching until I was nearly 30. Most of my non-bar approaching has occurred in my 30s, and targeting women 25-35. I've not seen a lot of attractive 25-35 year old women in bookstores when I've tried bookstore approaching. That's why the incident this past weekend stood out for me. I didn't bookstore approach for years simply because I saw few to no viable approaches in them.
BTW on a sidenote, I have been grocery shop approaching at Kroger's whole foods and Trader Joe's in the Nashville area after work while doing groceries, for two weeks. So far no leads, with all the cameras in shops did you ever feel like you're being watched therefore messing up your game?
 

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I have been grocery shop approaching at Kroger's whole foods and Trader Joe's in the Nashville area after work while doing groceries, for two weeks. So far no leads, with all the cameras in shops did you ever feel like you're being watched therefore messing up your game?
I've done more grocery store approaching over the years than bookstore approaching and I never once felt that way about approaching in grocery stores.
 

Tell her a little about yourself, but not too much. Maintain some mystery. Give her something to think about and wonder about when she's at home.

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Random thought will be to make or buy a bookmark and write your name number and hand it to the girl you fancy
 
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