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The Best Of Roosh - Volume 2: Understanding Women
The Best Of Roosh: Volume 2 is a remastered compilation of Roosh's top 79 blog articles published between February 2013 and October 2018, from a total of 631 that were written. They include topics on women, dating, game, sex, masculinity, life, culture, and power. Here is a sample of titles included in the compilation:
-The True Nature Of Women
-Women Who Don't Have Babies Go Crazy
-Some Women Only Marry Men They Can Cheat On
-Dating Doesn't Work
-2 Signs A Girl Will Cheat On You
-How The Game Changes When You Get Older
-The Death Of Male Authenticity
The articles contained in this compilation help men understand women and their environment through a masculine frame of reference that resists the Western agenda of male emasculation.
-The True Nature Of Women
-Women Who Don't Have Babies Go Crazy
-Some Women Only Marry Men They Can Cheat On
-Dating Doesn't Work
-2 Signs A Girl Will Cheat On You
-How The Game Changes When You Get Older
-The Death Of Male Authenticity
The articles contained in this compilation help men understand women and their environment through a masculine frame of reference that resists the Western agenda of male emasculation.
292 pages, Paperback
Published May 5, 2019
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Roosh V.
28 books91 followersDaryush 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.
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August 8, 2022
9.9/10.
An incredible essay collection by Roosh. Spending two days reading about his journey from 2006 to late 2018 through his two "Best of Roosh" volumes has been quite the experience.
You first see Roosh entranced with bedding women, formulating strategies on how to best get the degenerate American variety. Then he travels to Eastern Europe and South America, where he sees a more feminine, sweet, and deferential variety of female. He quits his 9-5 job to bed more women, write, and travel the globe. He lives his dream for a few months and keeps "succeeding".
Then he begins to get disillusioned. The women he fornicates with are beginning to seem useless to him. They have nothing to give him but 10 seconds of pleasure, and they are not fun to be around either. Save a drunken state, he doesn't even want to be with them. They are getting more narcissistic and bitchy as cell phones rise in popularity. Even Eastern Europe — and Poland, his favorite place — begin to become corrupted by the degenerate West.
Now Roosh is bored. He began with a goal of "succeeding" with women, got a notch count of 30, saw men with their counts in the hundreds, proceeded to put that goal in his mind, and went and got it. But who cares anymore? Who cares for women that require clown behavior to bed once? Who cares for another five minutes of screeching, when you've done it hundreds of times before? Man adjusts to his circumstances, and so did Roosh.
Now begins the disgust. What is wrong with a culture that encourages its women to become fat and sleep around like dirty pigs? What is wrong with a society that continually tells egalitarian lies which proceed to degenerate everyone to the lowest common denominator? What is wrong with a society where a man has to pray to find a woman who has not been sexually defiled tens of times?
Why has this been occurring? Why does every Western policy revolve around man not reproducing? What are the elites, the media owners and bankers, trying to get us to do? Why do their products so heavily marketed — the slut life, promiscuity as high status, pesticides and vaccines as safe, veganism as health — create weak, atomized, and mentally ill individuals? Is this purposeful?
Now Roosh begins to see lies everywhere. Beginning with the lie that the sexes are equal and refuting it through experience, he begins to question all around him. The more he investigates common media talking points — about race, the economy, health, masculinity, globalism, and multiculturalism — the more he begins to see through their thin veneer. Studying the exact opposite of what the media tells him, Roosh begins to see that the contrarian/dissident perspective is consistently correct.
He begins to speak. He begins to decry feminism, support natalism and the family, encourage his readers to return back to religion, and speak about who the real culture corrupters are. Now begins to persecution. He is hounded by the media as being "racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic", etc. He realized that the current battle being fought is not just masculine men vs. feminism, but is a much larger war that puts tradition against the financiers eager to make slavish consumers out of us all.
So Roosh takes up his Cross and begins to take his position in the great fight. Men must first take care of their own problems before becoming keyboard warriors, he tells us. We must strengthen our bodies through physical exercise, which raises our confidence and testosterone, thus making us biologically more masculine and courageous. Then we must cultivate mental independence through reading and by turning off corporate-sponsored media, such as Netflix, the mainstream media, and pop music. The next step is financial independence. We must make local connections and have the stability to not be fragile to an SJW attack. With financial independence, we can put forth our real beliefs in this degenerate world of ours.
Our evil elites hate one thing most: us Westerners having children. That is the greatest revolt, the greatest step we can take in this world. It gives us an objective responsibility for the future of our family, community, and nation. Thus we must find marriageable women and procreate. We must steel our children the best we can against the evils of consumerism, fornication, and egalitarianism. As opposed to those anti-values, we value masculine duty, the wisdom of tradition, and objective excellence. We value hard work in improving our bodies, minds, and station in life. We are men. We pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps.
No matter what anyone tells you, we men still can make a difference in our local worlds. We can take care of our anxieties, fears, and weaknesses, replacing them with discipline, strength, and Stoicism. We can dutifully search for a wife and — taking a great plunge — have children. We must make our lives have a beginning, middle, and end — no more saying, "I want to be young forever". Our duty is to improve our station while working for our family and children. Let us do the best we can with the situation given to us.
An incredible essay collection by Roosh. Spending two days reading about his journey from 2006 to late 2018 through his two "Best of Roosh" volumes has been quite the experience.
You first see Roosh entranced with bedding women, formulating strategies on how to best get the degenerate American variety. Then he travels to Eastern Europe and South America, where he sees a more feminine, sweet, and deferential variety of female. He quits his 9-5 job to bed more women, write, and travel the globe. He lives his dream for a few months and keeps "succeeding".
Then he begins to get disillusioned. The women he fornicates with are beginning to seem useless to him. They have nothing to give him but 10 seconds of pleasure, and they are not fun to be around either. Save a drunken state, he doesn't even want to be with them. They are getting more narcissistic and bitchy as cell phones rise in popularity. Even Eastern Europe — and Poland, his favorite place — begin to become corrupted by the degenerate West.
Now Roosh is bored. He began with a goal of "succeeding" with women, got a notch count of 30, saw men with their counts in the hundreds, proceeded to put that goal in his mind, and went and got it. But who cares anymore? Who cares for women that require clown behavior to bed once? Who cares for another five minutes of screeching, when you've done it hundreds of times before? Man adjusts to his circumstances, and so did Roosh.
Now begins the disgust. What is wrong with a culture that encourages its women to become fat and sleep around like dirty pigs? What is wrong with a society that continually tells egalitarian lies which proceed to degenerate everyone to the lowest common denominator? What is wrong with a society where a man has to pray to find a woman who has not been sexually defiled tens of times?
Why has this been occurring? Why does every Western policy revolve around man not reproducing? What are the elites, the media owners and bankers, trying to get us to do? Why do their products so heavily marketed — the slut life, promiscuity as high status, pesticides and vaccines as safe, veganism as health — create weak, atomized, and mentally ill individuals? Is this purposeful?
Now Roosh begins to see lies everywhere. Beginning with the lie that the sexes are equal and refuting it through experience, he begins to question all around him. The more he investigates common media talking points — about race, the economy, health, masculinity, globalism, and multiculturalism — the more he begins to see through their thin veneer. Studying the exact opposite of what the media tells him, Roosh begins to see that the contrarian/dissident perspective is consistently correct.
He begins to speak. He begins to decry feminism, support natalism and the family, encourage his readers to return back to religion, and speak about who the real culture corrupters are. Now begins to persecution. He is hounded by the media as being "racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic", etc. He realized that the current battle being fought is not just masculine men vs. feminism, but is a much larger war that puts tradition against the financiers eager to make slavish consumers out of us all.
So Roosh takes up his Cross and begins to take his position in the great fight. Men must first take care of their own problems before becoming keyboard warriors, he tells us. We must strengthen our bodies through physical exercise, which raises our confidence and testosterone, thus making us biologically more masculine and courageous. Then we must cultivate mental independence through reading and by turning off corporate-sponsored media, such as Netflix, the mainstream media, and pop music. The next step is financial independence. We must make local connections and have the stability to not be fragile to an SJW attack. With financial independence, we can put forth our real beliefs in this degenerate world of ours.
Our evil elites hate one thing most: us Westerners having children. That is the greatest revolt, the greatest step we can take in this world. It gives us an objective responsibility for the future of our family, community, and nation. Thus we must find marriageable women and procreate. We must steel our children the best we can against the evils of consumerism, fornication, and egalitarianism. As opposed to those anti-values, we value masculine duty, the wisdom of tradition, and objective excellence. We value hard work in improving our bodies, minds, and station in life. We are men. We pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps.
No matter what anyone tells you, we men still can make a difference in our local worlds. We can take care of our anxieties, fears, and weaknesses, replacing them with discipline, strength, and Stoicism. We can dutifully search for a wife and — taking a great plunge — have children. We must make our lives have a beginning, middle, and end — no more saying, "I want to be young forever". Our duty is to improve our station while working for our family and children. Let us do the best we can with the situation given to us.
August 24, 2025
At the beginning, this book feels a bit all over the place. The first hundred pages don’t seem to have a clear direction, and I honestly thought it wasn’t going anywhere. But after that, everything starts to click. It turns into a book that gives real clarity about the society we live in today, how far it’s drifted from virtue, the role of men and women, and what men need to do to live in alignment with values and core (“nuclear”) values.
It also digs into how feminism has weakened some key aspects of society, the negative impact of social welfare, and the idea of a “Cold Civil War” in the U.S. led by Democrats. The book is clearly aimed at readers with a capitalist, more conservative/right-wing mindset, and it makes strong arguments that reinforce that worldview. It contrasts this with leftist goals, who drives them, and why.
There are sharp takes on nationalism, cultural collapse, and the Matrix metaphor, whether you take the red pill or the blue pill, as a way to think about freedom and social control. Above all, it’s a defense of core/nuclear values and why holding on to them matters. For me, this book is a solid tool for anyone who wants to strengthen and defend a conservative, capitalist worldview grounded in virtue and values.
It also digs into how feminism has weakened some key aspects of society, the negative impact of social welfare, and the idea of a “Cold Civil War” in the U.S. led by Democrats. The book is clearly aimed at readers with a capitalist, more conservative/right-wing mindset, and it makes strong arguments that reinforce that worldview. It contrasts this with leftist goals, who drives them, and why.
There are sharp takes on nationalism, cultural collapse, and the Matrix metaphor, whether you take the red pill or the blue pill, as a way to think about freedom and social control. Above all, it’s a defense of core/nuclear values and why holding on to them matters. For me, this book is a solid tool for anyone who wants to strengthen and defend a conservative, capitalist worldview grounded in virtue and values.
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January 22, 2021
I enjoy Roosh's writing, but the essays here get pretty repetitive and they're pretty pessimistic as well. While I appreciate he doesn't try to con readers into believing that anyone can become a ladies man, it all still feels really negative - usually talking about the need for men to travel overseas and master game in order to find a quality woman. For guys with lower than average looks and no budget to be traveling the world, it can be rather depressing.
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