The Art of Seduction

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Summary: you need this book
Review: if you've been tip toeing around this book. if it has somewhat caught your eye, but you just can't grasp the thought of the "power of a book" overwhelming you with it's " art of seduction"..
well I have news for you, this book may be just as magical as a ancient love potion found in a witch's den or on the shelves of a very fine noble king,..this book is indeed magical.
When I first picked it up, I humored the thought, ...who is this Robert Greene and what makes him the expert of seduction.
The moment I grazed through this book's pages I was enchanted.
This work of art is multi-functional...not only is it instructional in a very clever way, but amid the chapters are the most devilish and sweet tales of factual seduction through out history.
Greene has also added quotes from wonderful literature, and specs from psychologist and other well informers. You will find yourself picking at pages you want to read, highlighting, reexamine your approach to seduction, and ultimately re-reading this book time and time again. This book is sexless, ageless, for attached or unattached clever people. I am a 20 something female with friends of many ages and I have started a rage with this book. This is a fun book, excellent gift, and fantastic for your soul! There really is an art to seduction!

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Summary: (Human) Art at it's best...
Review: I don't like anything related to achieving Power. In the Art of Seduction, the words power, vicitim, influence, specific character etc. are used a lot. All to my displeasure. Nevertheless, Mr Greene highly succeeded in gathering tons of example from historical figures like Casonava together. Brought in many psychological aspects of life, not only about the seduction of an other person, but also about our own way of thinking and behaviour. There's a lot to skip, but some thoughts are masterful: Pain & Pleasure, Send Mixed Signals, Confuse. Deep human thoughts. Deep understanding by the author that will make you thinking for a long time...

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Summary: Hodge podge of stories from all kinds of place
Review: This book is just a collection of stories from movies, literature and rumors about presidents and movie stars. The author has added some highbrow commentary to these stories and declared it a manual for seduction. It's a joke! If you are looking to improve your relationships or seduce the other sex, look elsewhere because this book is nothing more than a mildly amusing read.

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Summary: Essentially Amoral and Powerful
Review: Here you'll find different models of seducers/persuaders and what their characterists are, what to actually DO and how to ADOPT those characteristics, possible roadbumps, etc. Essentially, you can adopt the MODEL to your personality, if you so desire, or you can try something new on for a change, either way, you can elegantly USE this and have a lot of fun with it.

If you are thinking about using this information just for SEDUCTION, you are missing a much bigger picture, because you can use these skills to "seduce" your customers to buy more and feel good about you, or if you want to make friends, you can use this to make some really good friendships, strong like forged steel. Something you might be interested?

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Summary: Very Interesting!!!
Review: In my opinion, this may be the best book on seduction ever written. Not necessarily because it would improve the life of everyone reads it, but because it so dang interesting. The author expands his global metaphor of "life as war" from his book the 48 Laws of Power into love (and spirituality! Whew!). This may not be the most effective metaphor for everyone to use, with all of the shy, paranoid, etc... folks in today's society. But it sure is interesting! Lots of conflict and struggles. Some parts of this book made me very uncomfortable, kind of like after I read books on evolutionary psychology. And some parts made me laugh, but it all kept me reading. Anyway, the author covers a whole lot of ground from a historical prospective, and the book is visually and conceptually interesting. At the very least, this book is going to be talked about, and quoted many times in the future.

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Summary: Profound
Review: I have been waiting for this book for almost 2 years. It did not disappoint me. I found it to be a profound book, although not necessarily a pleasant book. It caused me to re-think my relationships, perhaps even re-think myself. The 48 Laws of Power is the "bible of power". This is less general but more profound, which may be why it is unnerving. I have stopped reading the Joost Elffers sidebars, although I might in the future when I want a more light-hearted experience. I read a lot of books. My library is embarrassingly large. However, I do have a mental list of the few books that I would take to the proverbial desert island. This is one of them, and it is ironic that I would do this even though there would be no one else on the island to seduce. This book is a synthesis of philosophy and psychology, and is paradigm breaking. Freud must have had a similar unnerving effect on his contemporaries when he discussed premises for behavior that were perviously not part of social discourse.

I did not find the book to be amoral or manipulative. I found it to have a different morality than that which is instilled in us by convention. The book celebrates non-possessive intimacy, and describes the mindset that is the prerequisite to such an experience. I am struggling for words to express this, but it is as if there were more than one dimension to a relationship, a human bonding. We are used to relationships that are symetrical in time and depth: they are either shallow and brief, or they are deep and eternal. Greene describes a variation that is brief and deep. This is what differentiates this book from the tawdry.

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Summary: Logical and well-organized guide to seduction
Review: As one reader indicated, this book is a must for all students of NLP and SS. I would describe this work as a more "down-to-earth" version of Speed Seduction. If you have thought that Ross Jeffries' material is on to something, but a little too way out there--then you definitely owe it yourself to buy Greene's book.. As the book says, "Seduction is a matter of psychology, not beauty." Greene takes the reader through a number of psychological angles from which the seducer can approach his target. Some of the historical references Greene employs may seem a bit dated, but he follows each historical reference with a solid explanation of the abstract principles involved.

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Summary: Thank you Robert Greene
Review: You are a genius! Reading your work has deeply affected me and greatly improved every aspect of my life. Like "48 Laws of Power", your new "The Art of Seduction" is certainly a treasure.

Thank you very much. Keep up the excellent work,

Cordially,

K

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Summary: Best Book on Seduction/Persuaion to come in a long time
Review: the book is well organized and gives a person a good look into wht is seduction, then goes on the explain the eight kinds of seducers and finally explain the process

The 8 kind sof seducers allows one tofigure out what is the kind that is best suited for oneself.He cleverly mixes the attitudes of each with the magic of metaphors fromhistory

After explainign the kinds of seducers he gets down to the process of seduction. He lays out the 24 laws (proccesses) of having a complete seduction. This is the real meat of the whole persuasion game.

this is a must read for anyone involved in the feilds of NLP, DHE or SS. Some poeple may find it to be immoral or downright offesnive to have such a manual in the market....but like fire you ould use this manual either to cook good meal or get yourself burnt

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Summary: Perceptive and challenging
Review: 'The Art of Seduction' is about willfully exploiting other people's weaknesses in order to seduce them.

The book deals not only with romantic seduction, but also the type of charismatic seduction that allows certain political leaders for example to wield enormous power over the public.

The type of seduction talked about here is more than the everyday level of admiration, it's about how to really get under people skins, how to make them obsessed with you. Not surprisingly the author makes it clear that not everyone can be seduced in this way, that you need to find someone who has some large hole in their character ready to be exploited.

The book is divided into two sections. The first outlines different types of powerfully seductive characters - whose traits you might nurture in yourself. For example, the 'Natural' who embodies childhood, playfulness, spontineity and unpretentiousness. The second half of the book outlines a number of strategies and maneuvers to be employed in the seduction process. One example is to 'Stir up the transgressive and taboo'. Another small section explains a number of 'victim' types, their character weaknesses and how to exploit them. For example you may seduce a 'Professor' type - the intellectual who cannot leave their head, by providing an escape to physicality.

Many points are illustrated using examples from historical and literary figures, including relative recent examples such as JFK.

Although i doubt i will ever consciously use any of the techniques outlined, still I found the book quite perceptive and fascinating. One thing I repeated wondered is why you would want to seduce someone you have such a cynical understanding of the weaknesses of. Still I have no doubt that highly seductive people instinctively employ many of the techniques mentioned. I'm no psychologist, but many of the book's remarks on human nature rang true to me.

I doubt the book's usefulness as a Manual for Seduction (those who need self-help book are no doubt seduced by the idea of this!), but I'd recommend it to anyone with a deep interest in how the world works.