No clue why the hate
The book is Golden, and actually was the blueprint to part of my game.
The first half is positive and teaches you how beatiful and fun the game is. The 2nd half is depressing and shows you the dark/addicting side of this shyt
It's real, real as it gets, and honestly Strauss was ahead of his time than. The stuff that he figured the community now is starting to accept in full i.e. Self-Improvement, Social Circle game, Fame game etc etc
The biggest thing I learned from the book is that you make your own "Style" and be true to yourself. This is why I never followed one train of teaching like Pua's/macks or heck even Don Juans here
I read the book twice, the first time it was inspiring and motivating the 2nd time it was depressing and sad. why? because I realized the shyt Strauss went through I was going through at the time and you realize that a lot of this is really blazay blah