Thoughts on "The Book of Pook"

SyrusDrake · Jan 11, 2017

I finished reading "The Book of Pook" this afternoon. Some of you might have heard of it. It's a compilation of posts from a respected member of a seduction forum from the early 2000s. I wrote the summary below for my goodreads account and thought I'd share it here since it's a book other fapstronauts might eventually stumble upon too.

This was probably one of the most frustrating books I've ever read. Not bad though, I can deal with bad books. I just put them away and that's it.
But there are some really solid pieces of advice in this book, which makes it all the more infuriating that the majority of it is such utter bobbins. It's like having do scuba dive in a septic tank for bars of gold...

The constant misogyny is probably the least of the book's issues. It's a collection of posts from a PUA-forum, so you know what you're in for and considering its origin, the book isn't even that misogynist, it's not really hateful. It's mostly just condescending, portraying all women as child-minded simpletons, all functioning the same way, merely doing girl-talk with their girlfriends while the men go out to hunt food and build society.

Far more irritating is the blatant inconsistency. Okay, it's a collection of only semi-related forum posts and they were written over several years, during which the author underwent some life changes, which he admits himself. But even single posts themselves aren't always consistent. The author is an incredibly talented and creative writer with a vocabulary far, far above average and he'll often quote great philosophers, thinkers and writers. He's clearly a very well-read person who admires the great intellectuals of the past. Yet he constantly berates and condemns intellectualism and people who prefer mentally stimulation conversations over what he calls "action dates". This seems contradicting at best, hypocritical at worst...

I did mention that it wasn't all bad though. Some advice is solid, mostly as long as it isn't related to women and dating. His advice on self-development, living a life worth living, not relying on outside sources for your feeling of worth and so on are valuable but everything around them is just so...wrong.

If you're a strong character who has a solid respect for women as equal human beings, maybe give this a look. But if you're easily influenced by big words and lofty promises, this book could very easily lead you down a dangerous path that ends up in the women-hating world of Men's Rights and Red Pill.
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Has anyone else read it before? What do you think about it?

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