Fantastic tips and real actionable advice. First week out and my skill level markedly improved in a natural and organic way tha...  Read More

Fantastic tips and real actionable advice. First week out and my skill level markedly improved in a natural and organic way that didn't feel cheesy or forced.   Read Less

This is one of two books I've read (though there may be others out there) that I would file under Pickup for Guys Who Don't Wan...  Read More

This is one of two books I've read (though there may be others out there) that I would file under Pickup for Guys Who Don't Want to Come Off Like Creeps. (The other, if you're curious, is Mark Manson's Models.) And it's also one of the most original books I've read on the subject.What Houpert espouses is a more mature version of pickup that takes it out of the realm of weird acronyms and nicknames that seem like a game of Dungeons & Dragons played by sexually active nerds. Instead, this is a book for a more mature (though not necessarily older) guy - one for whom being attractive to the opposite sex is a fun adjunct to a fulfilling life, but not part of his core identity. Perhaps more importantly, this is a book for guys who possess both an identity and a sense of ethics and are unwilling to compromise either for the purpose of getting some tail.Unlike most books on the subject, The Anti Pick Up Line seems to place equal emphasis on both inner and outer game, with substantial attention paid both to what an attractive man is and what an attractive man says. The section on the characteristics of the best version of you is every bit as good - and useful - as the suggested improv games, which come complete with sample dialogue.I particularly liked the fact that there was obviously a lot of original thinking that went into this book. Lots of pickup books seem to go in circles peddling advice that they read elsewhere, to the point where I suspect some authors simply read a bunch of pickup books, pick their favorite advice, put it in a book, and self-publish it on Amazon. Not here: 99% of the material is stuff I hadn't found elsewhere.In sum, this is a great read for mature guys who don't want to have to get a personality transplant, lie, or act like a 14-year-old to get girls. I give it my very highest recommendation.   Read Less