Book reviews written in 2015 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
Do More, Spend Less
Brad Wilson
Will the Real You Please Stand Up
Kim Garst
The Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams
Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams
Magical Worlds of the Wizard of Ads
Roy H. Williams
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Fran Lebowitz
Conquering the Electron
Derek Cheung & Eric Brach
Age of Conversation 3
Drew McLellan & Gavin Heaton
The Moral Arc
Michael Shermer
Bold
Peter Diamandis
Manifesto for the Noosphere
José Argüelles
Trust Me, I'm Lying
Ryan Holiday
Mugged
Ann Coulter
Win the Game of Googleopoly
Sean V. Bradley
A God That Could Be Real
Nancy Ellen Abrams
A Death on Diamond Mountain
Scott Carney
Everybody Writes
Ann Handley
Waking Up
Sam Harris
The Art of Work
Jeff Goins
Stand Out
Dorie Clark
Mind Wars
Jonathan D. Moreno
Headstrong
Rachel Swaby
The Divine Spark
Graham Hancock
The Only Woman in the Room
Eileen Pollack
The Upside of Stress
Kelly McGonigal
Twitter Power 3.0
Joel Comm & Dave Taylor
Highly Effective Networking
Orville Pierson
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
One Spirit Medicine
Alberto Villoldo
ALL THINGS GO
Eric Durchholz
Motivation Manifesto
Brendon Burchard
Life on the Edge
Johnjoe McFadden & Jim Al-Khalili
Naples Declared
Benjamin Taylor
Our Last Best Chance
King Abdullah II of Jordan
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
Jeremy Rifkin
Forgotten Civilization
Robert M. Schoch
Real Skills, Real Income
Diana Schneidman
The Optimism Bias
Tali Sharot
Godless Grace
David Orenstein. & Linda Ford Blaikie
The Power of Relentless
Wayne Allyn Root
Spreading the Wealth
Stanley Kurtz
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
J.R.R. Tolkien
Dataclysm
Christian Rudder
The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin
A Simple Government
Mike Huckabee
Now, Discover Your Strengths
M. Buckingham & D.O. Clifton
Harness the Sun
Philip Warburg
Free for All
Wendy Kaminer
Q & A About Sleep Apnea
Sudhansu Chokroverty
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
Public Apology
Dave Bry
Start-Up City
Gabe Klein
Street Smart
Samuel I. Schwartz
What If ...
Shirley McLaine
Our Grandchildren Redesigned
Michael Bess
An Improvised Life
Alan Arkin
Flipping Burgers to Flipping Millions
Bernard Kelly
Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
The Upward Spiral
Dr. Alex Korb
Leadership and Self-Deception
The Arbinger Institute
The Compound Effect
Darren Hardy
Where Mercy Is Shown, Mercy Is Given
Duane "Dog" Chapman
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Seven Events That Made America America
Larry Schweikart
About the Author: Brendan Tripp began writing poetry in high school, continued into college, and expanded his writing in his years as a P.R. Executive and Publisher. He eventually settled into a pattern of writing 250 poems per year, and continued doing so for a dozen or so years in the 80's and 90's. Every year he'd produce a comb-bound collection of all of that year's output, and this new series of releases is replicating those collections, but in perfect-bound paperback editions. His better-known chapbooks were put out every couple of years, and were essentially "best of" collections featuring 10% of the 500 poems composed during a particular 2-year span. Eventually these will likely be pulled together into one volume and re-issued here as well. Brendan has been very active on-line from the very early years of the Web, and has published a good deal of his poetry on his blog, which he began in 2000. This, from time to time, included reading audios of various poems. Due to the large number of pieces involved, this has never been been systematically addressed, but that is an element that is being considered for future development, possibly through a Blog Talk Radio channel, or via YouTube videos. As is evident from even a cursory reading of Tripp's poetry, most of this is dark, brooding, anguished, and fraught with despair. Eventually the process of giving these sorts of inner states a physical form began to take a toll, creating something of a neuro-linguistic feedback loop of increasing morbidity, and around 2004 he took the dramatic step of no longer writing poetry on a regular basis. After having composed so much for so long, this came as quite a shock to Tripp's system, and the various publishing projects that he had in the works (including a web site with three decades' worth of poems) fell by the wayside. It was only in the past year, following his being hired to consult on a book project, that the idea of using one of the now easily-accessible on-demand publishing services (Amazon's "Create Space") came up, and he has begun the major process of developing new editions of these annual collections. While Brendan Tripp has no plans to resume writing poetry, he is quite interested in getting his "life's work" out there, both in print, and eventually in e-books and other media. Tripp lives in Chicago where he is a consulting Marketing Communications pro, and freelance writer. He can be found all over the Internet as "BTRIPP" (except for where he's not).
