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The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships Audio CD – Oct. 13 2015
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''Most of us are told, from the moment we are old enough to understand a story, that there is a golden path waiting to take us safely through the jungle of life: get a good job, fall in love, get married, have children, and live happily ever after. It sounds simple enough. Yet as a species, we seem to have an incredibly difficult time making it happen. So, one day, I looked around and saw my friends frustrated and neglected in their marriages - some being unfaithful, others white-knuckling it, many surrendering to their fate, and a few living in denial. And I saw myself still unmarried, childless, and, in the biggest disappointment of all to myself, cheating. And I wondered if it was possible to change the odds - and the rules - for myself. The story that follows, however, is not a journey that was undertaken by choice or for the purposes of a book. It is a painfully honest account of a life crisis that was forced on me by my own behavior and its consequences. And as such, it requires sharing a lot of things I'm not proud of - and a few things I feel like I should regret a whole lot more than I actually do. Because, unfortunately, I am not the hero in this tale. I am the villain.''
Neil Strauss became famous to millions around the world as the author of The Game, a funny and slyly instructive account of how he transformed himself from a scrawny, insecure nerd into the ultra-confident, ultra-successful ''pickup artist'' known as Style. The book jump-started the international ''seduction community'' and made Strauss a household name - revered or notorious - among single men and women alike. But the experience of writing The Game also transformed Strauss into a man who could have what every man wants: the ability to date - and/or have casual sex with - almost every woman he met. The results were heady, to be sure. But they also conditioned him to view the world as a kind of constant parade of women, sex, and opportunity - with intimacy and long-term commitment taking a back seat. That is, until he met the woman who forced him to choose between herself and the parade. The choice was not only difficult, it was wrenching. It forced him deep into his past, to confront not only the moral dimensions of his pickup lifestyle but also a wrenching mystery in his childhood that shaped the man that he became. It sent him into extremes of behavior that exposed just how conflicted his life had become. And it made him question everything he knew about himself, and about the way men and women live with and without each other. - - He would never be the same again. - - Searingly honest, compulsively readable, this new book, The Game of Love, may have the same effect on you.
- Print length1 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarperCollins Audio and Blackstone Audio
- Publication dateOct. 13 2015
- Dimensions13.72 x 3.56 x 14.99 cm
- ISBN-101483004767
- ISBN-13978-1483004761
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- Publisher : HarperCollins Audio and Blackstone Audio; Unabridged edition (Oct. 13 2015)
- Language : English
- Audio CD : 1 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1483004767
- ISBN-13 : 978-1483004761
- Item weight : 295 g
- Dimensions : 13.72 x 3.56 x 14.99 cm
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About the author

Neil Strauss is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Game, Rules of the Game, Emergency, and Everyone Loves You When You're Dead. He is also the coauthor of four other bestsellers--Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Mötley Crüe's The Dirt, and Marilyn Manson's The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, and Dave Navarro's Don't Try This at Home. He can be found at www.neilstrauss.com.
His latest book, The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships, was released on October 13. The review in Grantland described it as follows:
"I want you to read this book. I want your partners to read this book. I want your families, your friends, your coworkers, and your colleagues to read this book. I want women to read it, and men — especially men — to read it. But more than that, I want you to think critically about it, about what it says about you and the world around you and your romantic relationships. I want it to inspire you to dig deep inside yourself and figure out what’s stopping you from making yourself happy: I want it to inspire you to embrace and engage with love, in an honest and healthy way."
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There are moments in the book where I can identify with the characters' emotions in the many different situations they experience.
It took me a week to complete, but that's saying a lot because it's the first book in a long time that I've read from start to finish.
Part of the reason I purchased this book was because when "The Game" first came out I had noticed it in a book store but did not buy it, and afterwards had "non-buyer's remorse" for not "getting in early" on the concepts of the scene I gradually grew enthusiastic about.
There are a few themes mentioned that I had also independently found helpful to healing myself, and the process often accelerates when one consciously enters into relationships with others.
Strauss scarcely speaks of group dynamics until after the credits roll, and I had found that communal living (having experienced it myself firsthand) is an essential part of our natural psyche as human beings...in many ways it is the missing piece of the puzzle, one which is hard for the vast majority of us to grab ahold of, and if we do, nearly impossible to make endure. Societies, schools, nations, neighbourhoods, workplaces and drinking house parties do not do our inner tribe justice.
Too honest for some maybe but a serious look at honesty and the important role it plays in relationships. Not just honesty with your partner but being honey with yourself.
Often unwittingly narcissistic this book shines a light on the dark place most men fear to admit,to themselves let alone women, exist.
Fun, done with great humour, and self deprecation this book is a hard to put down enjoyable ride through some of life's more uncomfortable issues.
The conclusion of the book is great, it defines what love is from Neil's perspective. My conclusion is "Be careful what you wish for."
Great read,
Thanks,
Hao
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Neil has a way of making keeping the reader engrossed and a poignant way of imparting wisdom which so many self-help authors should envy. His demeanour always leaves me feeling as though he would be the kind of person I would be friends with, and whilst this may not be the case in reality, for getting a point across and making it stick - it works!
I think I'll read this again and again.


Neil Strauss exposes in THE TRUTH his traumas, fears and vulnerabilities to the world. That is the kindest and bravest gesture of all and I thank him for that.
That is why I highly recommend this book and hope it is as inspirational and motivational as it was to me when I read it.
A true weak up call.

Yes, as my friend said, it might be pretty uncomfortable read as truth itself is most of time hard to look at.
But book is beautifully written adventure. As the main character goes through his personal odyssey towards learning more then he ever though about true meaning of relationships.