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Summary: can someone please explain why this is funny?
Review: It's not that this guy isn't original, although he's not. (His act has not only been done by better writers, it's been done by every drunken idiot you hung out with in college.) It's that he's not even particularly clever.
Seriously - buy yourself a copy of "Animal House" instead... at least that was original (at the time) and well written. Then, with your change, go out & get really wasted, and tell your friends about it. It worked for me - and we laughed and laughed and laughed.
Jackass.
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Summary: It helped me
Review: Let's face it, I've been what you call a "loser" pretty much all of my life. While most of the jocks and cool kids were at the high school prom, I was alone in my parents' basement thinking impure thoughts of Christine Kiley, the cheerleader who was at the prom with the starting quarterback. You know the girl.Needless to say, I was a virgin throughout high school...and college...and the two years after that. I managed to hold down a job at a convenience store selling rubbers to the next generation of Christines and quarterbacks, but I still couldn't find any chicks until a friend turned me on to this book. Actually, he wasn't really a friend of mine. I think he felt sorry for me 'cause he came into the store pretty regularly to buy brewski's and I would often gab like some girl about my troubles with the ladies. Anyway, he lent me the book and my life hasn't been the same since. I studied that book like I studied that image of Christine Kiley bouncing around with those pom poms, and I memorized nearly every line. I would practice them on some of those hot-to-trot ladies who strolled into the convenience store looking for some action. Sure, I got fired. But with this book, some studying, and a little bit of practice, I'm now getting more leg than Bojangles. So, for all of you 30-year-old virgin "men" out there, I'm writing this for you: there is hope and his name is Tucker Max.
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Summary: Actually really good
Review: Most of the books written about pick-up lines are crap, full of stupid lines that no one would ever use on anyone. I bought this book expecting it to be similar, but it is totally different. It is intelligently written, really funny, and contains lots of useful lines, lines that I can use on real people. Not only that, it talks about how and when to use lines. The only way to describe this is as a quasi-intellectual treatment of pick-up lines, something that I didn't think was possible, but Tucker pulls it off fairly successfully here.
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Summary: SOOOOO CLICHE
Review: There is nothing different, or special, or even slightly amusing about this book. It's just like 2000 other books out there on the subject of dating that think they're amusing. Don't bother buying this - it was boring, tedious, and dry at best. I should have known it was going to suck as soon as the author said he's still single. .... Maybe you need to get some new pick-up lines!
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Summary: My new favorite book
Review: This book has worked a dozen times for me already. I have picked up more single women with this book than with all of my other pick-up line books combined. This book has not only led to better sex, it has also helped me immeasurably in job interviews, interrogations, and general awkward silences. Since buying this book my stutter has bothered me less and I smile all the time. This book is not just for men, even a shy girl like me can get a little lovin carrying the new Sex Bible around with her. I pull it out and use it where ever I am, bars, airports, bathrooms- the lines are universal. Mr. Max is a pioneer of the pick up line and I hope I can thank him personally someday. Move over L. Ron, Tucker Max is here to stay.
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Summary: what this book is for
Review: this book is for entertainment. it's for laughs. and these "lines" are actually hooks (as someone already posted), things to continue conversation or cause them to laugh. Tucker Max should've went into more detail about the who, when, and how for each line but then it'd be less funny.the 3 stars is for making SOME people think this book would single-handedly help you get a date.
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Summary: what this book is for
Review: this book is for entertainment. it's for laughs. and these "lines" are actually hooks (as someone already posted), things to continue conversation or cause them to laugh. Tucker Max should've went into more detail about the who, when, and how for each line but then it'd be less funny. the 3 stars is for making SOME people think this book would single-handedly help you get a date.
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Summary: Misunderstood
Review: This book is incredibly useful for people who (a) have at least minimal game and (b) can figure out how to use this book. The latter is the hardest part, for as the author makes clear, a lot of the lines that might work for one guy aren't at all useful for a different guy. You have to know your game, and know on whom to use different lines. If you're not a naturally sarcastic person, some of these lines will get you slapped, or worse. Simiarly, if you don't come across as shy and self-depricating, you'll look like, well, the arrogant jerk you're trying to hide ("I may look like a nerd, but its only a disguise."). And if the person is intelligent, some of these lines will work much better than others. More importantly, you have to realize, as is clear in the introduction, that these aren't so much pick-up lines as they are "hooks." Something to use three or four lines into a conversation. For example, "Can I inspect your premises" is probably a bad conversation starter, But probably goes over well with a half-joking-look-I-might-understand-your-dissertation-and-I-can-be-suggestive tone once you find out she's a philosophy grad student. Similarly, "My friend is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot" is a decent line, but is great when your drunken friend comes up to you and says something incredibly awkward, stopping your conversation (who hasn't had a "friend" come up and think he was whispering "Dude, she's hot" when he was shouting it at the top of his lungs?). Anyway, if nothing else, these lines are simply funny. The thought of using some of the lines alone makes a purchase worthwhile, and the author's commentary is sometimes better than the lines themselves ("Dumb, but some girls think its cute. Of course, those same girls play Magic, the Gathering, so act accordingly (read: get away)"). Definitely worth the money, and will probably get you at least one date.
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Summary: Is there a part II ???
Review: This book is so funny. I have had this book for about two years now and every time I pick it up to read, it still makes me laugh. I originally gave to my dad for his 50th birthday as a joke, but it has been the best present ever. I recommend this book to anyone who wants a good laugh.
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Summary: Good, but not as good as I had hoped.
Review: Tucker Max is hilarious. I really enjoy reading his stories online because apparently he does some crazy stuff. He also apparently gets a lot of women. So I figured a book of pick-up lines by Tucker Max would be amazing, with plenty of anecdotes.
The lines are funny, but largely unusable (some good ones in there, I guess). Not as substaintive as I had hoped. If Tucker Max was looking to write a Bible for picking up women (as he hinted at in his introduction), this wasn't it. We could call it the psalms, if that.
But, great expectations aside, I am pleased I purchased the book.
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