Book reviews written in 2016 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
The Rapture of the Nerds
Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross
Marilyn & Me
Lawrence Schiller
Cure
Jo Marchant
How Enlightenment Changes Your Brain
Andrew Newberg, MD & Mark Robert Waldman
Hug Your Haters
Jay Baer
The Age of Radiance
Craig Nelson
Less Medicine, More Health
Dr. H. Gilbert Welch
The Magic of Believing
Claude M. Bristol
It's Not Who You Know, It's Who Knows YOU!
David Avrin
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
Love Is the Cure
Elton John
The Art of People
Dave Kerpen
The Upside
Adrian J. Slywotzky
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Steven King
If it Ain't Broke...Break It!
Robert J. Kriegel
Success is Not an Accident
John G. Kappas, Ph.D.
Righteous Indignation
Andrew Brietbart
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Memories of My Life
Auguste Escoffier
Listen To This
Alex Ross
An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison
The Invisible Sale
Tom Martin
On Killing
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens
We the People
Juan Williams
Arms & The Man
George Bernard Shaw
The Third Industrial Revolution
Jeremy Rifkin
The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage
Greg Gutfeld
Talking with My Mouth Full
Gail Simmons
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected
Marcelo Gleiser
Living in Blue Sky Mind
Richard Gentei Diedrichs
Beyond Reason
Roger Fisher & Daniel Shapiro
Lyric Poems
John Keats
Outlaw Journalist
William McKeen
The Conscience of a Libertarian
Wayne Allyn Root
Breaking the Spell
Daniel C. Dennett
Emotional Agility
Susan David, PhD.
The Decision Maker
Dennis Bakke
Steal the Menu
Raymond Sokolov
Choice Point
Harry Massey & David R. Hamilton, Ph.D.
Darwin's Devices
John Long
Love & War
Mary Matalin & James Carville
Pure Goldwater
John W. Dean & Barry M. Goldwater Jr.
Don't-Know Mind
Richard Shrobe
Captive
Jere Van Dyk
JFK Jr., George, & Me
Matt Berman
Tracks in the Sea
Chester G. Hearn
Golden Gate
Kevin Starr
Roger Ailes: Off Camera
Zev Chafets
Sane New World
Ruby Wax
The Power of Meaning
Emily Esfahani Smith
Friendfluence
Carlin Flora
Lost Ancient Technology Of Peru And Bolivia
Brien Foerster
Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One
Zev Chafets
Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA
Richard C. Hoagland & Mike Bara
The Art of the Sale
Philip Delves Broughton
See a Little Light
Bob Mould
Thinking Beyond the Unthinkable
Jonathan Stevenson
Beggars, Cheats, & Forgers
David Thomas
Lincoln Unbound
Rich Lowry
The Fifth Agreement
don Miguel Ruiz & don Jose Ruiz
Keep It Pithy
Bill O'Reilly
Autobiography
Morrissey
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).
