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The Complete Asshole's Guide to Handling Chicks by Dan Indante and Karl Marks.

At this point I'm not really sure if it's a satire of narcissistic manipulators ala "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" or if it's narcissist porn ala Anne Rice, or if the authors intended to write the book to have some claim to being some kind of sexual Machiavelli. At any rate, the book is written in the style of an unaware narcissist (in other words, the average kind) and it distinctly reminds me of The Pimp Game by Mickey Royal except for one aspect.

I highly recommend it if you're into psychology because illustrates the Dark Triad really, really, mindbogglingly well. I wouldn't recommend it to a psychos, machs, or narcs -- it would probably scare the shit out them to know that the games they play and even the way they think has been so clearly written down in black and white for anyone to read. (And that's how it doesn't remind me of The Pimp Game, as Mickey Royal at least understood that he was 'giving away the game' even if he claimed to be doing it for a good reason. BTW: That reason was essentially to 'keep the game going.' Riiight.)

Oddly enough, in sadistically yet humorously ripping apart the insecurities and problems of everyone but the narcissist, the book says as much about the human condition in modern day America as it does about those 'beyond being humane.'  

The authors could have been geniuses and that could have been their intent. Who knows? Maybe they're just shitty people looking to make a buck by selling out. In this case, I'm not so sure I'll ever be clear on the actual intent of the authors. Even so, I've learned a lot from reading their book, whether it was intended or not.

I'm currently reading through a few occult classics such as--Liber Falxifer, PanParadox and Fosforos.

I don't buy into any of it, I simply enjoy history and anthropology. Illustrations in these sort of texts are also fantastic. 

Liber Falxifer in short, largely covers the Latin-American 'cult of death'. PanParadox contains mysticism around the 'satanic', "black magical-chaos" philosophy. Fosforos is moreover an in depth study that delves into the occult philosophy--set of attributes regarding.

@Kat

Sounds interesting. Is it an engaging read or more like a historical text?

Wheatley writes very well, I always find his accounts a good read, they are both very factual, but he clearly shows how he feels about a situation/ritual/practise. He was fairly impartial which I think is what makes his work so good. He was neither a Satanist or a Christian, astrology fascinated him as well as hypnotism and shamanism, whereas the realms of greater magick clearly scared him, it's like he worked with and respected the Satanists/dark Pagans of the time, but was very wary of them.

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