BTRIPP Books - 2016 - Paperback

by Brendan Tripp (Author)

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

Author Biography

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).