Why Can't I Use A Smiley Face? Stories From One Month In America

by Roosh V.

• How many sexual partners is too many?
• What happens when you've lived away from your birth country for too long?
• Why do moms give bad advice to their sons?
• Why do Americans talk so much?
• Should a one-night stand have romance?
• Can a man ever be more interesting than a woman's smartphone?
• Are you your father's son?
• How much money is enough?
• Which country is best for men?
• Can a city decrease a man's sex drive?
• Why is it that using a smiley face is needy in one country but not in another?

These are the questions that come up in Why Can't I Use A Smiley Face?, a short memoir about one man's brief return to America after living in Europe for nearly two years. Stories range from trying to bang girls in Washington DC to getting caught up in a web of lies.

Living abroad can bring great experiences, relationships, and happiness, but it may cost you friends, family, and even your own identity.

68 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2013

About the author

Daryush Valizadeh, also known as Roosh V, Roosh Valizadeh, and Roosh Vorek, is an American pick-up artist of Iranian and Armenian descent, known for his writings on seduction and antifeminism. He writes on his personal blog and also owns the Return of Kings website where he publishes articles by others on related subjects. Additionally, Roosh has self-published multiple books, most of which offer advice to men on how to talk to, pick up, and ultimately sleep with women in general, as well as in specific countries.

Reviews

[Byron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Maybe the most interesting of the three or four Roosh V books I've read so far, though it's not really a real book. It's more along the lines of one of those Kindle Singles. But it might cost you more than a real Kindle Single, depending on how you get it. Try finding it in one of the package deals he occasionally runs. Nullus.

Smiley Face finds the author in his mid '30s, burned out, back in the US for a few weeks, trying to regroup, catch up with friends, family and what have you. The heavy sense of malaise that hunger over the SA travel memoir A Dead Bat in Paraguay is back big time. And it's worse now, because he's an old-ass man. He's achieved a lot of what he set out to do with his books, websites and scoring with naive, desperate women from underdeveloped countries, and he's still sad, alone and probably not particularly well off. Now what?

If you're a young brother whose life is in a state of disarray, you might relate to this a little bit too much. Especially the stuff with his mom. I thought the fact that he occasionally sends her money (or did, lol) was neither here nor there, but he brings up a good point about her not being able to be any more supportive of his work (and hence his livelihood) than she has been, thus essentially siding with random hoo-ers who would apparently sleep with pretty much anyone (just saying) over her own flesh and blood.

Even if you don't have any use for this guy philosophically you might get something out of it. The guy has an interesting story. He should consider writing it up in a single work that encompasses his entire career.

[Петър Стойков · Rating 3 out of 5]

Нелоша кратка книжка за завръщането на автора във Вашингтон след като е живял няколко месеца в Европа. Сравнението съвсем не е в полза на американския град и хората в него, макар затова заслуга може би да имат кофти отношенията на човека с майка му и сестра му.

[Radek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read. Some "red pill" stuff.