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Will Tripp Pissed Off Attorney-at-Law
Will Tripp is a dwarf lawyer who despises liberal totalitarianism, and so represents only victims of PC run amok. Aggressive, plain spoken and charmingly profane, he revels in taking on leftists of all stripes, battling them on their own go-for-the-jugular terms. In this first book in the series, Will and his idiosyncratic "dream team" go after a renowned campus feminist and (perhaps redundant) ruthless psychopath who is surrounded by campus acolytes and fawned over by the media. As Will discovers, she has an artfully constructed history to go with a carefully hidden past.
"I couldn't put Harry Stein's new novel down. It's both sad and funny and should be called "The Way We Live (Sigh) Now".
- David Horowitz
"I just finished Will Tripp and I love it. Harry Stein has created a small miracle in his dwarf lawyer at splenetic war with liberal pieties. With a pitch-perfect ear for academic humbug, Stein has assembled a delightful supporting cast, including a weaselly college president who declares his commitment to "healing" every time he pushes a conservative over the cliff. The most hilarious take on the sumptuous buffoonery of what passes as an elite college since the last edition of The Harvard College Catalogue".
- Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars
"I couldn't put Harry Stein's new novel down. It's both sad and funny and should be called "The Way We Live (Sigh) Now".
- David Horowitz
"I just finished Will Tripp and I love it. Harry Stein has created a small miracle in his dwarf lawyer at splenetic war with liberal pieties. With a pitch-perfect ear for academic humbug, Stein has assembled a delightful supporting cast, including a weaselly college president who declares his commitment to "healing" every time he pushes a conservative over the cliff. The most hilarious take on the sumptuous buffoonery of what passes as an elite college since the last edition of The Harvard College Catalogue".
- Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars
- GenresFiction
221 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2013
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About the author
Harry Stein
77 books21 followersConservative author Harry Stein is known for his light touch on hard topics: How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy (And Found Inner Peace): I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican; The Idiot Vote -- The Democrats' Core Constituency; etc. Now, with his comic novel Will Tripp, Pissed Off Attorney-at-Law , he does his bit to take back popular culture from the radical left.
Harry Stein is a veteran author and journalist who, in his earlier life as a liberal, regularly wrote for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy and Esquire, among other places he will never appear again. A contributing editor to City Journal, he written twelve books.
Harry Stein is a veteran author and journalist who, in his earlier life as a liberal, regularly wrote for The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Playboy and Esquire, among other places he will never appear again. A contributing editor to City Journal, he written twelve books.
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August 10, 2021
It was nice to temporarily live in a fantasy world where facts and truth matter. In the real world would anyone care if it were revealed that an uber leftist had once been an ardent Nazi?
October 18, 2021
I enjoyed this so much I just ordered "Will Tripp Goes Hollywood".
January 30, 2017
Consistently entertaining, sometimes laugh out loud funny.
December 13, 2013
I received this book from a First Reads giveaway.
Stein, you had me at pissed off attorney, if I am to be honest. The title grabbed my attention but the words inside kept it.
What a really fun book about going over the top...Unfortunately, there are glimmers of truth in there too, about where we are headed with so much political correctness...But I digress...Back to the book!
This book is well written and easy to read. While it doesn't have numbered chapters, it does have breaks throughout, which would denote chapter breaks. These are usually just a few pages at most which make it perfect for those little snatches of time when you sneak in a bit of reading. It's also easy to set down and pick right up where you left off without getting lost.
The plot was brilliant and believable. The climax was not what I expected but I did enjoy it.
With characters as entertaining as Will who is a dwarf and his employees who are as colourful as he is, it is worth a few laughs along the way. Oddly enough, they were believable and after a while you forget their eccentricities until they get pointed out again.
A really enjoyable book that I want to spill all the details of, but then, what good would that do you, the potential reader? I don't want to take away the fun from you. Read it, enjoy it and find yourself in the world of a lawyer who's brother is the target of an extreme feminist...I am willing to bet, you will enjoy this one!
Stein, you had me at pissed off attorney, if I am to be honest. The title grabbed my attention but the words inside kept it.
What a really fun book about going over the top...Unfortunately, there are glimmers of truth in there too, about where we are headed with so much political correctness...But I digress...Back to the book!
This book is well written and easy to read. While it doesn't have numbered chapters, it does have breaks throughout, which would denote chapter breaks. These are usually just a few pages at most which make it perfect for those little snatches of time when you sneak in a bit of reading. It's also easy to set down and pick right up where you left off without getting lost.
The plot was brilliant and believable. The climax was not what I expected but I did enjoy it.
With characters as entertaining as Will who is a dwarf and his employees who are as colourful as he is, it is worth a few laughs along the way. Oddly enough, they were believable and after a while you forget their eccentricities until they get pointed out again.
A really enjoyable book that I want to spill all the details of, but then, what good would that do you, the potential reader? I don't want to take away the fun from you. Read it, enjoy it and find yourself in the world of a lawyer who's brother is the target of an extreme feminist...I am willing to bet, you will enjoy this one!
November 15, 2013
As with all of my Firstreads wins, many thanks go to the author, publisher and Goodreads for my free copy to read and review.
This was a great, fun read that certainly appealed to the cynical side of me just from reading the synopsis when I entered to win it. Will Tripp is a dwarf lawyer (he prefers to be called that) who has had it up to his eyeballs with politically correct, extremely liberal, do gooders. He makes no bones about it and I for one applaud the character. As I have aged, I have found myself more and more conservative with a few beefs about society in general and Harry Stein strums a chord with this wonderful novel. It also turns out to be a pretty darn good cozy mystery type of book. Not that that is what it set out to be but it certainly ended up feeling that way to me. I laughed throughout the book and would recommend it to any person who has left behind the idealism of youth and moved into a more conservative stage of life. Many of the plot points resounded powerfully with my own views of the world and I will certainly recommend it to many of my friends or anyone who has a sense that there is something very wrong with the path that we seem to be on.
Thank you Mr. Stein for a novel featuring a bold, brassy protagonist who calls them like he sees them. My hat is off to you and please write more books featuring Will Tripp.
This was a great, fun read that certainly appealed to the cynical side of me just from reading the synopsis when I entered to win it. Will Tripp is a dwarf lawyer (he prefers to be called that) who has had it up to his eyeballs with politically correct, extremely liberal, do gooders. He makes no bones about it and I for one applaud the character. As I have aged, I have found myself more and more conservative with a few beefs about society in general and Harry Stein strums a chord with this wonderful novel. It also turns out to be a pretty darn good cozy mystery type of book. Not that that is what it set out to be but it certainly ended up feeling that way to me. I laughed throughout the book and would recommend it to any person who has left behind the idealism of youth and moved into a more conservative stage of life. Many of the plot points resounded powerfully with my own views of the world and I will certainly recommend it to many of my friends or anyone who has a sense that there is something very wrong with the path that we seem to be on.
Thank you Mr. Stein for a novel featuring a bold, brassy protagonist who calls them like he sees them. My hat is off to you and please write more books featuring Will Tripp.
May 8, 2014
I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway.
I thoroughly enjoyed Will Tripp. It resonated scarily with what is happening in the Australian history curriculum at the moment; the Industrial Revolution being taught as the exploitation of the workers, and the Cold War being reduced to the emergence of protest movements. If the role of art is to open debate about the problems in the world, then Harry Stein has produced a powerful work of art.
I thoroughly enjoyed Will Tripp. It resonated scarily with what is happening in the Australian history curriculum at the moment; the Industrial Revolution being taught as the exploitation of the workers, and the Cold War being reduced to the emergence of protest movements. If the role of art is to open debate about the problems in the world, then Harry Stein has produced a powerful work of art.
November 28, 2013
An entertaining and enjoyable book.
Dont be worried about the politics of the book - it is enjoyable even if you might not agree with everything the main protaganist does, says or thinks - its fiction after all.
Dont be worried about the politics of the book - it is enjoyable even if you might not agree with everything the main protaganist does, says or thinks - its fiction after all.
October 14, 2013
Loved the satire and PC bashing. Quick and amusing read.
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