Nice Guys Don't Get Laid

I love this book. I had a string of really bad relationships and was always complaining to one of my guy-friends about them. He was a true Mr. Nice Guy. He got really sick of me, and suggested very "nicely" (as was always his fashion) that I read this book. No, I don't recommend following this book in order to get chicks, but I do recommend that some women read it very carefully. It's a comic book. No one likes to be lectured, but this book helps you take it a little easier. It also helps me recognize a Nice Guy when I see one, and now I'm married to one.

All I can tell you is this, this book worked for me. In fact it's nearly worked for me 100%. All my life I was a nice guy. I was raised in a traditional family household. I grew up believing that people were to be treated as you would like them to treat you. In a perfect world this would be great, but clearly it's not a perfect world. I feel most of the statements and opinions the author states here are true. If statistical facts could be shown in these areas, then I think it would definitely make people have stronger reasons for feeling this way. We live and then we die. It's a cruel world and there's no mercy. In the end it's about getting what you want, and saving your own a--. If for some reason these things don't appeal to you, then don't worry about it. I feel though that if you follow this type of method it does work. No matter who one is within reason will be more successful with this information, compared to someone without it.I think most women generally like to be treated [badly]. It gives them some form of drama that they can attempt to solve while living through life.What appalls me even more are women's reactions to these types of books. I never realized it until after reading this book but most magazines women read have many articles on how to manipulate "their man." I also think women write books dealing with these forms of topics in much greater volume than to our gender as well.

This book was really good. Although the book is primary written to let the Nice Guy know that he is not alone, it gives both men and women a look into the phenomenon that has plagued the dating world for as long as I can remember: Women are attracted to jerks. It does this through the use of numerous funny and extreme examples. Although I disagree with some of the premises in this book, the book itself was meant to be nothing more than a humorous, enlightening satire based on a man's own experiences with the upside-down world of dating. I'm glad I bought it and I'm going to pass it on to some of my more disenchanted friends!

This is the funniest, saddest, truest work of nonfiction I've ever read. At age 23, I've never been on anything remotely resembling a date; without this book, I would still be wondering why.

Is Melleton right on with everything he says? No. But he is far closer to the truth than the conventional wisdom that women want a "sweet, kind, caring, sensitive" man. If you want proof, just open your eyes and look around. Look at the men the prettiest women are with. Look at the way they act. Look at their arrogance and abusiveness. Listen to their loud voices which betray no hint of interest in the feelings or opinions of other people. Then, look at the guys who can't get a date to save their life. By and large, they want nothing more than to treat a woman like a queen, but there are no takers. Of course, reality is complex, and absolute statements like "nice guys don't get laid" can never be completely accurate. But Melleton's work is a much-needed treatise nonetheless. He speaks for all the shy, insecure nice guys that women refuse to even acknowledge the existence of. And at the same time he slaps the hell out of those nice guys and says "wake up!". A man will not lead a healthy, fulfilling life by becoming a "Mr. Abuse", but neither will he be happy by living the life of a lovesick, put-upon "Mr. Nice Guy". A man needs a book like this to remind him of that.