![]() ![]() Offering something far more sophisticated than Strauss’ manuals for adolescent losers and the sexually autistic, Greene is not interested in seduction as a mechanical application of rules for sex. It is about the flow of power between sexually alive people and no means to be compared with the ‘game’ genre of Neil Strauss and others even if Strauss (now a ‘reformed character’) once recommended the book to his ‘seduction community’. For better or worse (depending on your stance), Greene is persuasive that seduction is a game between equal partners where the ‘victim’ is willing enough because of what they will get out of the process. ![]() Unfortunately for those determined to be ‘nice’ in the world, there is scarcely a line in this book that does not ring true. ![]() Almost hypnotically repetitively at times, The Art of Seduction might be the book that Machiavelli could have written about love if he had been a jaded modern. These two books have to be taken together because they represent a world view that is fiercesomely realistic about human motivation at its most raw. Book Review #3 - ‘The Art of Seduction’(2001) and ‘The Concise 48 Laws of Power’ by Robert Greene (2002) ![]()
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