Thursday, November 20, 2014
Club Game now also on Book Depository (free worldwide shipping!)
If you live in a country where Amazon does not ship to free of charge, then you can now order Club Game: The No-Nonsense Guide to Getting Girls in Clubs and Bars from The Book Depository as well. They ship worldwide, and free of charge.
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Do you have a free sample/excerpt?
ReplyDeleteThere is no sample yet. However, I posted the table of contents some time ago.
ReplyDeleteGot CLUB GAME and enjoyed reading it a lot. Most of it wasn't new to me and has become part of my mindset and action since I first encountered your writings in 2012.
ReplyDeleteSince I travel a lot, clubs haven't been my foremost hunting areas. But your insights on stereotyping on pp. 37 are immensely valuable to me in that regard, since I feel I never seemed to profile myself well enough.
Also, just from a purely stylistic point of view, the entire final section from pp. 113 onwards ("Successful Approaches" & "Taking Action") is a great, fun read.
Amazing: This concise book is actually really gonna make my time in clubs more fun & worthwhile. ;)
I also feel, that MINIMAL GAME & CLUB GAME complement each other rather well.
Thanks, man!
(Will pen a review on amazon.de)
Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you're enjoying the book. On a side note, my editor called the later parts in the book my "most inspired writing yet". Others have likewise remarked that Club Game really takes off after the groundwork has been laid.
DeleteI'm looking forward to your Amazon review. Please let me know when it's up.
OK, will let you know.
DeleteAh, and just one more delicious detail: I can assert that your remarks on pag. 31 - 32 on the nature of the "Konzertbetrieb" and on the mental state of the preposterous, "educated" middle class are abolutely true as well. Being a "classical musician" myself, I must say, I was quite delighted to find that as an analogy – and simply just as a facetious detail – in your book.
(On citing Beethoven's V. & IX. symphonies as examples of "safe" concert programs I have to somewhat disagree, though. The music itself was and is still fresh, absolutely revolutionary and is in no way "safe". If one takes a close look, it is actually quite edgy, harsh and energetic. Played by the right musicians with the right awareness/frame of mind – e. g. on period instruments – due to its beauty and its raw power it still literally makes for life-shattering experiences, even with non-afficionados. I've been able to witness this effect on people first-hand myself. It is the routine of musical performance, the lazy narcissm of many "star performers" and the cliche-ridden marketing scams, that rob such music of its inherent explosive appeal, reduce it to alleged being common place and feed it to people, who are only too willing/complacent to not having their boat severely rocked.)
I could write a book about the preposterous middle class. I loved passing myself off as some regular schmo with fancy clothes. In fact, I knew I had this "women thing" figured out when regular chicks could relate to me and the "educated" ones thought they were above me. Oh, and how I loved demonstrating some of those cunts how incredibly stupid they were! In that regard business students were my favorite, as I never met a crowd of people so limited in their mental abilities, yet so convinced of their superiority. Some tried to impress me with the bullshit they study, and after a few pointed questions it invariably turned out that they never questioned anything they were taught. Well, most people don't, but most of those don't build their ego around their intellectual shallowness.
DeleteRegarding my remark about certain performances that I view as "safe" --- this is to be understood from the business perspective of a promoter of concerts of classical music. For them those works are safe because they can more easily sell tickets for them. I'm aware of how Beethoven's music was perceived by his contemporaries, and of the many conventions he broke. I bet that some random person in such a concert, however, primarily shows up because they believe it's something they have to do to affirm their status, and the composer has a name they recognize.
There U go:
Deletehttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3942017040
Amazon for whatever reason just won't publish my German review on amazon.de, so the English is the only one out there.
Thank you very much! I particularly liked the twist at the end.
DeleteIt seems to sometimes take a day or two until reviews appear, so your German review may show up on Amazon.de eventually.
Corrected a few typos & bad phrasing. Also added a bit to the twist at the end.
DeleteThe amazon.de-Review was posted 5 days ago and apparently still is being reviewed (?). Anyway, hope UR doing well and thanks again for the cool book!
The German review is now online as well:
Deletewww.amazon.de/dp/3942017040/
I got a "it's been shipped" notice yesterday... and I guess it will take 2-3 more weeks before its in my hands. Plus being busy I won't finish it in some time.
ReplyDeleteSo it might be some months before I can do a review.
Where are you blogging these days, Alek?
DeleteI'm not and haven't in years.
DeleteI made a huge comment about precisely this question the other week on another post here... about why I quit. It's literally impossible to be a regular blogger and have a balanced life with ambitious personal and business goals (which I have plenty of).
I wish I had the time, I just don't. Here's the lengthier answer:
http://aaronsleazy.blogspot.com/2014/10/table-of-contents-of-my-next-book.html?showComment=1413236397541#c7016155483715846218
That's understandable.
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