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The Art of Seduction |  | Author: Robert Greene
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 467
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 0142001198
Dewey Decimal Number: 155
EAN: 9780142001196
ASIN: 0142001198
Publication Date: October 7, 2003
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This mesmerizing exploration of the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power is a masterful analysis of civilization's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra to JFK, as well as the classic literature of seduction from Freud to Kierkegaard and Ovid to Casanova. Robert Greene once again identifies the rules of a timeless, amoral game and explores how to cast a spell, break down resistance, and, ultimately, compel a target to surrender. Presenting the timeless profiles of each type of seducer and the twenty-four maneuvers that will guide you step by step in the game of seduction, The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals the timeless power of this age-old art.
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 $17 for a kindle edition??? July 7, 2010
Nicole
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Havent read this book because it's $17 on kindle... Are these people on crack?
Buying it on paperback is cheaper... under $11
 Great Book July 5, 2010
Talib
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book, but be careful when reading it. The Art Of Seduction gives a great insight on relationships, and if your not careful you could find yourself using some of this art on your current better half. Any book this powerful deserves five stars.
Amazing May 21, 2010
Kim / Chicago girl (Chicago, IL. United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book. Another masterpiece! It's not a book you want to read quickly. You have to "savor" each and every page/concept. He is an author I find truly amazing.
The Devil Can Site Scripture For His Purposes--and history May 3, 2010
J. Carpenter (New York)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
" I use the word amoral to describe them, as opposed to immoral," author Robert Greene stated in an interview about his international bestsellers.
Interesting distinction.
As one enters Mr. Greene's website for "The Art of Seduction" four maxims for seduction flash and disappear on the screen like the images shown to Warren Beatty in "The Parallax View":
Choose the Right Victim
Send Mixed Signals
Confuse desire and Reality
Create a False Sense of Security.
(The third is extremely odd since, again, in an interview, Mr.Greene stated, "If I could simplify the whole game of power and strategy in one equation, it would all hinge on the capacity to see events around you exactly as they are.")
Dig a little deeper into the website (and the book) and Greene lays down other rules of the art, which, as disturbingly predatory as they are, are rationalized as tutorials in self-protection: "If you know how others do these things, you'll be in a better position to protect yourself against those who employ such tactics." To take this argument to its logical extreme imagine a book with a dozen or so rules on how to launch a prostitution ring and recruit hookers so you'll be better able to insulate your own daughter or sister from the guile of pimps.
A few more of the moves to be mastered to become an arch-seducer:
Create a false sense of security
Stir anxiety and discontent
Create temptation
Use the demonic power of words to sow confusion
Use Spiritual Lures
Isolate the Victim.
Clearly, Robert Greene is dangerously confused about the practical and objective similarities between "amorality" and immorality.
Consider the following positions of two individuals:
The first: "It is immoral to act or speak in such a way to inflict pain on another human being solely for the purposes of satisfying one's own desires".
The second: "People do inflict pain on others for selfish reasons. I am not saying whether it is right or wrong; I will merely instruct you how to do it and leave the moral distinctions to you."
Mr. Greene's assertion that proposing strategies to manipulate another, confuse an individual, inflict psychological pain to whatever degree on someone, and create in another a distorted worldview
that gives him or her a false sense of security is something other than immoral does not even pass the laugh test.
It doesn't matter if the endgame is sex, power, or financial gain. Bernie Madoff is doing the equivalent of life plus 99 years because he was a grandmaster of seduction,
At the end of the day, however, the real problem-the ultimate moral problem with Mr.Greene's book--is that it is not about art but artiface--strategems, trickery, and the employment of base cunning to bend another's will to our own. Its quite telling that Mr. Greene trots some of history's most nefrarius figures as examples of "the art" mastered. Gandhi, Churchill, or Martin Luther King had nothing to say about psychological persuasion? (One need not even consider the obvious that in almost every human sexual encounter where the emotions run hot mixed singles are sent unconsciously, desire and reality almost always conflict, runaway hormones alternate between giving us profound feelings of security and insecurity, and the mating ritual is a marathon attempt to provoke temptation.
Save yourself a few bucks and pick up a used copy of Balthazar Gracian's "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" which Mr. Greene rarely mentions but which covers the same ground and would quite likely be as revelationary and transformative for some as this treatise on predation.
Should have read this when I was younger April 7, 2010
LA-Radio Ken (Los Angeles)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a book that should not be taken lightly. It's brutal in it's honesty and the methods are tried and true. To seduce, is to chance, corner and conquer. You may not like that; but that's seduction in its brutality.
If you watch how some people are successful in seduction, they intuitively use some or all these methods. Some of them are quite cruel and manipulative; but this will also teach you the signs so that you won't be taken advantage of.
Don't pan this book so easily until you've actually read it.
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