Where Reading Is A Pleasure ...
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fiat_knoxThis week, I shall be mostly reading the following.
- The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War and The Art of Seduction, all by Robert Greene (no relation, though I do wonder at times ...);
- Hunter: the Vigil, by a whole bunch of authors.
Already I am loving The Art of Seduction. This book details the nine types of seducer: Sirens, Rakes, Dandies, Coquettes and Charmers amongst them. They read almost like Fairest kiths of Changelings from Changeling: the Lost or bloodlines of Daeva Kindred from Vampire: the Requiem, but truly these are real world examples, involving historical figures.
The different types of victims of seduction are also listed. Hint: there are eighteen of them. Two, it would seem, for each type.
The book then proceeds to describe the art of seduction itself:- it being a four-staged process of great intricacy, involving creating compelling spectacles, using subtlety, guile and trickery to misdirect and wow the charmee into bed, or the boardroom, with one.
And those who take; the seducers, the courtesans, the Companions; learn the lesson that for everything taken, some thing must be given in return. The charmee must feel that she, or he, has had the time of their life under the seducers' tender hands and soothing words.
Not so much a book about sex, or about romance, this is a book about getting others to come to you by learning from, and applying, the lessons of history's Great Lovers to the modern world.
Not only is reading these books a pleasure; The 48 Laws has stood me in good stead as a ready source of plot ideas for roleplaying games, and I believe these three books are now going to prove, together, to be an invaluable resource for my Fourth Rewrite.
- The 48 Laws of Power, The 33 Strategies of War and The Art of Seduction, all by Robert Greene (no relation, though I do wonder at times ...);
- Hunter: the Vigil, by a whole bunch of authors.
Already I am loving The Art of Seduction. This book details the nine types of seducer: Sirens, Rakes, Dandies, Coquettes and Charmers amongst them. They read almost like Fairest kiths of Changelings from Changeling: the Lost or bloodlines of Daeva Kindred from Vampire: the Requiem, but truly these are real world examples, involving historical figures.
The different types of victims of seduction are also listed. Hint: there are eighteen of them. Two, it would seem, for each type.
The book then proceeds to describe the art of seduction itself:- it being a four-staged process of great intricacy, involving creating compelling spectacles, using subtlety, guile and trickery to misdirect and wow the charmee into bed, or the boardroom, with one.
And those who take; the seducers, the courtesans, the Companions; learn the lesson that for everything taken, some thing must be given in return. The charmee must feel that she, or he, has had the time of their life under the seducers' tender hands and soothing words.
Not so much a book about sex, or about romance, this is a book about getting others to come to you by learning from, and applying, the lessons of history's Great Lovers to the modern world.
Not only is reading these books a pleasure; The 48 Laws has stood me in good stead as a ready source of plot ideas for roleplaying games, and I believe these three books are now going to prove, together, to be an invaluable resource for my Fourth Rewrite.
