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The Natural Art of Seduction: Secrets of Success With Women | 
 enlarge | Author: Richard La Ruina
Publisher: Pennant Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 241
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1906015139
EAN: 9781906015138
ASIN: 1906015139
Publication Date: November 8, 2007
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 A life changing book August 26, 2008
I can't recommend this book enough. I loved 'The Game' by Neil Strauss, but being British, I didn't really feel comfortable spieling off lines and routines and I'm not sure how well they would have worked over here in the UK. So it was great to find out that there was someone like Richard La Ruina over here who was teaching people how to be good with women in a natural way, rather than a pick up artist way.
I found this book to be really interesting, thoughtfully written, funny in places, and poignant in others. It details a totally honest and almost unbelievable account of how someone can transform themselves from being a social misfit into a modern day Casanova.
What I really liked about his book was that it focuses on self improvement whilst being honest and true to yourself, rather than learning cheesy chat up lines or scripted routines like other books on pick up.
This book showed me that there was a respectable side to the world of pick up, and I can honestly say that it had a huge impact on my life. Everyone should read this book!
 Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo August 26, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Firstly, I must commend Richard on his achievements and success with his book/business. I was in Richard's year at college, in Cambridge and recognised him from his old picture instantly [inside front cover], and can vouch for his original `geekiness'!
His `success' aside, this book, The Natural Art of Seduction, is truly awful. Moreover, his terribly written advice is banal, with only a few interesting insights interspersed amongst painfully tedious tales of female conquests, that are limited in scope to picking-up foreign tourists in Soho and materialistic chicks in noncy bars that the average Joe wouldn't be seen dead in.
A noteworthy point that brought a smile however, was how Richard pretends to be a high-roller, exuding social status whilst reading like a proud miser circumventing any moments where money matters pop up, even getting girls (when they're lucky) to contribute to the wine he's buying them - that is ballsy!
Perhaps what is at fault most with the book, is its confused angle - is Richard advising readers how to have confidence with girls or is he advising how to be a pick-up artist? This lack of a clear angle undermines his advice, and goes to the core of the book's problem.
The fleeting encounters in his self-loving diary accounts are dull, patronising and downright annoying. They're written to affirm in the reader that Richard is the daddy of pick-ups, yet I found myself growing irritated and distracted by the sad, shallow, and somewhat pathetic caricature of a PUA. Richard's embarrassing shallowness is typified in his Paris Hilton story.
The book is comprised of 30% tiresome diary accounts, 30% CHEESY chat-up lines, and 5% pseudo mind games - The rest is just padding. You'll find a lot more helpful tips by simply using Google, and watching Derran Brown ...And going out.
Be under no illusions, this book is at best irritating, and certainly won't prove to be a golden ticket into a woman's psyche, heart or pants.
A MUST READ (ONLY FOR OPEN MINDED PEOPLE, I MUST WARN) May 9, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Looking at how Richard La Ruina crafted his book, it is very easy to assume that he exaggerated on some of the stories he wrote. I have to say that I agree with this to a certain extent.
But the moral of the story here is not how true some of the stories he narrates in the book are. The real moral of the story is that some of the things this guy recommends are true. Whether he copied them from someone else or not, it does not in any way take away the truth from some of the tips he recommends.
I did not buy this book because I had a problem talking to women. I would not want to say I am an expert at the subject., but If I check my history, I surely do not have a problem chatting up women.
I have to say since I read the book I have been able to learn tricks most of my friends don't know.
For example, how many times do you go on a night out and you see guys with their hands in their pocket all acting cool and when the party is over the leave as they come. I went to a party the other day and I tried been extra sociable, truth is it got me more attention than I ever had. I broke a conversation of three girls and a boring guy. One guy even had the guts to say to me that :
"You are everywhere, man. Chatting everything in skirt".
my response was:
"Am I suppose to be chatting anything in trousers?"
I know enough of women to understand that most of them don't go for boring guys and as for reviewers suggesting that women go for looks all I have to say is that they are as shallow as their thinking.
Richard got it spot on regarding the few tricks guys miss
Eye contact: A huge problem in the social circle. Most men are busy asking their guy friends, "I think that girl likes me", when they should be approaching the girl that is showing interest.
Generic dressing: First impressions matter. Countless of times, I have noticed girls gave me extra attention when I dress nice. It makes me stand out and this was before I read this book.
Holding interesting and connecting conversations: So many men find it hard to get a girl to be interested in them, they are always waiting for a day when a girl likes them for who they are. Wonder why you don't get the kind of girls you desire.
I met two girls yesterday at my school bar. I had chat up one of them recently and she happened to be there with her girl friend who I had seen briefly. When I entered the school bar they were a few metres away from three of my male friends. I went straight to them and started chatting to them and this time around I focused on the girl I had met briefly because I did not know her as much as the first girl.
Subconsciously I used some of the tricks recommended by Richard, things like creating a connection by using hooks, eye contact, showing more interest in the girl's hobbies and passions in life. It worked wonders because I came out knowing the girl more and found out we were from the same country.
While I was doing this I was been gestured to by my male friends. They were teasing me and I figured out they were interested in the girls. When the girls left the bar, they came over and told me they like them. I wonder what stopped them. What I have got to understand is that in life YOU HAVE GUYS WHO GO FOR IT AND GUYS WHO JUST SIT THERE ACTING COOL
The funniest thing about this is that I did this before I got to read the part about how to make a conversation with a girl interesting.
All this made me believe that Richard La Ruina's book is worth a read and recommend it to people who are humble enough to understand that WE AS MEN HAVE EGO's AND IS THAT SAME EGO THAT MAKES US NOT BELIEVE THE SIMPLE THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER!!!!!!!
Deceitful dishonest b******* April 27, 2008
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Where do I start? Front cover is enough to give the game away, when you look at Richard La Ruina, he's a model!! This guy had trouble dating women, no way! His story does not ring true, awkward, shy, yeah I bet the girls were put off by that, they go for looks, because there as shallow as we are! Some tips of his are laughable, wear decent clothes? As though dressing down was the secret, and get a decent hair cut, because, if people aren't talking about your haircut, it must be a bad one, nearly fell off my chair with that one.He mentions NLP, well if you study NLP, you'll find the same techniques in his book as well, it's called a double whammy, he's re-written the same old stuff as NLP. Pick Up Artists are after one thing and that is to get laid ASAP, how they get there is dubious, because it's not about relationships at all it's about notches on the bedpost, women are just numbers in the end. If that's what you want, I doubt you'll get there with this load of rubbish. Try some other book, not this one.
 Not as good as Mystery Method April 26, 2008
This book is ok i gues the tips is somewhat usefull, but Its not the 5 star book that so many describes. It is tips and methods mixed with the "evolution of a natural" which is boring bragging about "why i am better than anybody else at this" not worth reading. It still gets 3 stars as the other part is good written with humor,and the few illustrations are very good and explaining.
Chose MM over this.
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