Customer Rating: 
Summary: Complicated, but good
Comment: The Mystery Methods still work, you just have to stick with it. Also recommend "Secrets of the A Game" by Logan Edwards and "The Game" by Neil Strauss.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Too many people know his methods
Comment: Too many people know Mystery's Method, so it is becoming overused. Every girl has now been asked the same dumb questions by guys "Did you see that fight outside?" etc. I just wish there was some new material.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Steven Tyler Rockstar Wannabe + Communication Major = Mystery Method Mashup
Comment: Erik von Markovik thinks like a Stage Magician. Thus, he has a magician mindset.
He has the skills of leading folks through baby-step commands and body moves to control them.
In doing so, he controls their perception of ongoing at-the-moment experience and gains compliance.
In short, he creates mini-illusions like the Prize Illusion, the You're Getting Somewhere Illusion and the You're Cool Illusion.
By his dress and looks, Erik must have modeled himself after Steven Tyler of Aerosmith, right down to the black fingernail polish and the big floppy top hat.
Built from Group Dynamics and Dominance, the Mystery Method model makes these claims:
[1] Women want to feel secure, always
[2] Women want to feel excited
[3] Women want to know that you can deliver [1],[2]
[4] Women want men to be responsible for all [1],[2]
[5] Women only test contenders, those who could get sex
[6] Women must feel resistance after push testing to feel secure
[7] You must show higher worthiness than all other suitors
[8] You must act disinterested to the woman within a group who you want while showing your higher than others worthiness
[9] You must dominate the experience and all in the group through controlling the frame of reference, temporary beliefs
[10] You must come across as alive, deep, sexual, yet never easy, wimpy or a pushover
[11] You cannot make a woman feel like a slut in front of her peers
[12] You must control time perception of others
[13] You must gain dominance through Compliance Momentum that leads past the Compliance Threshold
In Erik's (or Chris Odom's) own words (from page 101):
"But in the Mystery Method, we approach the group itself. Women tend to be attracted to the highest-value man in their social context...you disarm the friends with stories, humor ... [to] steal the spotlight away from the hottie (the girl you want) ... [and] by negging (cutting down) the target (the girl you want)...Because her friends [now] love you ... you have social proof [status with] her peer group. Her [lowered] self-esteem [from] the negs ... [make her want] more attention from you ... She begins to work for your approval and [seeks] validation [from you]."
Few books are worth trading your time to read them.
This book offers some gems, a 20-something interpretation of university lectures in Group Dynamics and Interpersonal Communication Persuasion. Throw in
a few stage musician methods and you come up with the "Mystery Method."
Like most books, the story does not begin until several chapters ahead and like most books, The Mystery Method suffers from a bad chapter sequence.
Much of what you read from the Optional Chapters reflects social indoctrination that Erik took as a Canadian national. Thus, you can skip such without losing the essence of the method.
Here's a better chapter sequence to get you to the story faster:
Part I -- Foundation (Must Read)
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Rewiring her Attraction Circuitry (3)
A3: Male-to-Female Interest (7)
A2: Female-to-Male Interest (6)
Part II -- Action (Must Read)
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Conversation (8)
Rules and Structure of the Game (4)
A1: Open (5)
Mid-Game and End Game (9)
Part III - Optional Reading
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Forward by Neil Strauss
Preface
The Mystery Behind Casonova (1)
The Ultimate Purpose of Life (2)
Conclusion
A Bonus Letter from Mystery
Glossary
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great once you get past the BS
Comment: Mystery is the king of PUA. He is what we all try to aspire to be. It's a given fact. Neil Strauss made us all realize this in the Game. So why in the hell does Mystery spend the first 30 pages of this book trying to convince me that his method and the Venusian Arts work. Dude, no kidding, let's get straight to the point and teach me the techniques. You're already a household name, I don't need any more convincing. Once I got through all that, and there is a lot of it, it's good, and I was able to improve my skillset because of it. I want to be out there learning the game, not wasting an hour of my time being convinced that Mystery is the man.
Customer Rating:
Summary: AWESOME!!
Comment: This book was great. A little difficult to read (I suggest reading it more than once), but it really teaches you a lot. Great overall.
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