The art of seduction really is a good book... the problem with that book is more an issue of practical application of the ideas in the book.
Just because the book is more a series of historical examples of seduction, and the different things that people do to seduce women (or men), it would take reading it a couple of times before you really get the juice out of that book.
But, I unfortunately have to agree with 'simplyme' (I dislike the oversimplification that he did), that if you just get the jist of what this site has to offer, along with the mASF, and David d's e-books (which can be found using your local filesharing program that starts with a k and is apparently a curse word).
So, if you are interested in reading the seduction book, just go for it... but you would have to read that one more then once to become a better seducer.