Book reviews written in 2010 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
The Five-Minute Miracle
Tara Springett
Peace Kills
P.J. O'Rourke
Entangled Minds
Dean Radin
How to Self-Destruct
Jason Seiden
The Union of Their Dreams
Miriam Pawel
How to Thrive in Changing Times
Sandra Ingerman
A Chicago Tavern
Rick Kogan
Me 2.0
Dan Schawbel
1001 Things It Means to Be a Boomer Now
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
Crush It!
Gary Vaynerchuk
Super-Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Songs of Milarepa
Milarepa
Trust Agents
Chris Brogan & Julien Smith
The Last Three Minutes
Paul Davies
CrazyBusy
Edward M. Hallowell M.D.
Get Seen
Steve Garfield
In the Dark Places of Wisdom
Peter Kingsley
Social Media 101
Chris Brogan
Viral Loop
Adam L. Penenberg
Fired!
Annabelle Gurwitch
Utopia
Sir Thomas More
The Writer's Voice
A. Alvarez
Ethical Ambition
Derrick Bell
Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door
Harvey Mackay
Cro-Magnon
Brian Fagan
Social Media Metrics
Jim Sterne
On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Tse-tung
Get The Job You Want Even When No One's Hiring
Ford R. Myers
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss
10 Make-or-Break Career Moments
Casey Hawley
The Roman Empire
Dr. Ray Laurence
Ancient Greece
Eric Chaline
Ancient Egypt
Charlotte Booth
Effective Immediately
Emily Bennington & Skip Lineberg
The Next Wave of Technologies
Phil Simon
Permission Marketing
Seth Godin
Riding Toward Everywhere
William T. Vollmann
Twitterville
Shel Israel
The Magic of Thinking Big
David J. Schwartz
Collider
Paul Halpern
The Maya
Michael D. Coe
KaChing
Joel Comm
Cash In A Flash
Mark Victor Hansen & Robert G. Allen
Rewired
Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D
Careers For Your Cat
Ann Dziemianowicz & Ann Boyajian
What Your Body Says
Sharon Sayler
Angkor
Dawn F. Rooney
What Bothers Me Most about Christianity
Ed Gungor
Rework
Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson & Mike Rohde
Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Glenn Beck
On Seeing
F. Gonzalez-Crussi
The Art of Business Seduction
Mark Jeffries
Mutant Message Down Under
Marlo Morgan
Well Connected
Gordon S. Curtis
Free Prize Inside
Seth Godin
The Secret of Shambhala
James Redfield
Whispers
Ronald K. Siegel
No One Left To Lie To
Christopher Hitchens
The Twitter Job Search Guide
Susan Britton Whitcomb, Chandlee Bryan, & Deb Dib
Snake and Other Poems
D.H. Lawrence
The Grand Design
Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
UnMarketing
Scott Stratten
Vitamin Q
Roddy Lumsden
The Dragonfly Effect
Jennifer Aaker, Andy Smith & Carlye Adler
A World Without Islam
Graham E. Fuller
The Illustrated Timeline of Religion
Laura S. Smith
(oops - not enough room here - see the full list at EschatonBooks.com)
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).
