If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want. The two have been married for 3 years and now have a son. Starting with a stint in rehab for sex addiction, he then decided to take the time he needed to find himself and re-commit to the love of his life, Ingrid. Neil Strauss had to completely lose himself to write The Truth. Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author. Searingly honest, compulsively readable, this book may have the same effect on you.
And it made him question everything he knew about himself, and about the way men and women live with and without each other. It sent him into extremes of behavior that exposed just how conflicted his life had become. It forced him deep into his past, to confront not only the moral dimensions of his pickup lifestyle, but also a wrenching mystery in his childhood that shaped the man that he became. The choice was not only difficult, it was wrenching. That is, until he met the woman who forced him to choose between herself and the parade.
But they also conditioned him to view the world as a kind of constant parade of women, sex, and opportunity-with intimacy and long-term commitment taking a back seat. The book jump-started the international “seduction community,” and made Strauss a household name-revered or notorious-among single men and women alike.īut the experience of writing The Game also transformed Strauss into a man who could have what every man wants: the ability to date or have casual sex with almost every woman he met. Neil Strauss became famous to millions around the world as the author of The Game, a funny and slyly instructive account of how he transformed himself from a scrawny, insecure nerd into the ultra-confident, ultra-successful “pickup artist” known as Style. The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships by Neil Strauss