The Game

Neil Strauss's 2005 embedded journalism account of the pickup artist community — documenting the techniques (negging, peacocking, the Mystery Method) and the community's self-destruction — the most widely read document of the seduction community.

Creates the definitive pickup artist document — The Game's embedded journalism approach (Strauss lived in the community's Hollywood house, became its most successful practitioner, then watched it implode under its own social dysfunction) is simultaneously the best documentation and the best deconstruction of the seduction community.