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Trigger Warnings Kindle Edition

by Brian Keene (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This incendiary new non-fiction collection by World Horror Grandmaster Award winning author Brian Keene walks the line between profound and profane, poking and prodding everything from pop culture to politics. Whether it’s the downfall of America’s oldest mass-market publisher, the Second Amendment, advice on writing, marriage equality, crazed Internet trolls, writer’s organizations, the death of the Borders retail chain, misogyny in comic books, the history of the horror genre, or the apathy of a fading political system, Brian Keene shares his thoughts in that blunt, sardonic style readers have come to love.

TRIGGER WARNINGS includes acclaimed essays, speeches, and articles such as “Roots”, “Seminal Screams”, “The Dorchester Wars”, “More Than Man’s Best Friend”, “Cold Warriors”, “How to Write 80,000 Words in a Weekend”, “Children Playing with Guns”, “On Rape and Repugnance”, and many more.

Brian Keene’s TRIGGER WARNINGS. Don’t say you weren't warned.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00RLQ0EFM
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 29, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2875 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B089TT2VZD
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Brian Keene

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BRIAN KEENE is the author of over forty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and dark fantasy genres. His 2003 novel, The Rising, is often credited (along with Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comic and Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later film) with inspiring pop culture’s current interest in zombies. Keene’s novels have been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, French, Taiwanese, and many more. In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who, The X-Files, Hellboy, Masters of the Universe, and Superman.

Several of Keene’s novels have been developed for film, including Ghoul, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck. Several more are in-development or under option.

Keene’s work has been praised in such diverse places as The New York Times, The History Channel, The Howard Stern Show, CNN.com, Publisher’s Weekly, Media Bistro, Fangoria Magazine, and Rue Morgue Magazine. He has won numerous awards and honors, including a World Horror Grand Master award, two Bram Stoker awards, and a recognition from Whiteman A.F.B. (home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber) for his outreach to U.S. troops serving both overseas and abroad. A prolific public speaker, Keene has delivered talks at conventions, college campuses, theaters, and inside Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, VA.

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Matthew R. Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, entertaining, and fun to read
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
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I’ve been a fan of Brian Keene for a couple of years now, reading anything of his that I could find. Didn’t know about this one until he talked about it on his weekly newsletter, and of course I had to check it out. I found this to be a very interesting, entertaining, and fun book to read. I learned a lot about Brian and the life of a full-time writer. Being a new writer in the industry, I also found a lot of what he talked about to be helpful and motivating to me. Definitely recommend this book if you’re a writer, but also if you just want to learn a little more about Brian Keene, and enjoy some interesting articles and stories along the way.
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Tom A.
4.0 out of 5 stars A Slice of Brian Keene's heart.
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2018
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This book is a collection of the writings (blog entries, speeches, magazine articles) of the outspoken horror author Brian Keene. The topics discussed range from the silly and mundane (like people mistaking him for Dean Koontz) to matters that affect the heart of the Horror Community (the trouble with Leisure/Dorchester, Online Book piracy etc). It also discusses the human frailty of the said author, who admits the toll the writing life had inflicted on his marriage, family life, and various friendships.

There have been many personal and affecting books/ autobiographies of writers that simultanously chronicle their meteoric rise and the ever balloning personal problems that come with the package. Keene's work is not that, instead offering several vignettes in the author's life that give us a good and honest glimpse of the man inside. We find out that despite a lack of academic credentials and honorary status (he was not yet a Grandmaster), he was willing to stand up and fight against America's Oldest Mass Market publisher Dorchester. We find out about a man so dedicated to his craft that he basically neglects his spouse in favor of writing and absorbing knowledge from horror magazines.

Is it an all encompassing look at the man? No, it is not. Will it make you like Keene? Probably, but then again if you already hate the man, prepare to hate him even more as you peruse this work dripping with his personal philosophy and political musings.

I wish this book also chronicled his recent (circa 2017 up to now) flamewar with Lovecraft Biographer S. T. Joshi with regard to well, a lot of topics. If there's any negative thing I can say about this book is that Keene did not have the prescience to publish this book after the debacle with Joshi and Co. That, in my opinion, would have solidified his reputation as the uncompromising defender of a small group of people writing horror stories for a living.
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Seth Rakes
5.0 out of 5 stars Brian Keene's nonfiction is just as good as his fiction
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015
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This book is full of articles and blog posts covering a range of different topics. For starters, you can see how tormented and lonely it is being a full-time writer. He has several articles about writing fiction that were worth the full price of this book. You get to see all of the high points and low points and you really learn to appreciate Brian for all of the good that he has done for the horror genre. He's a hard-working dude and he deserves the best readers and reviewers to check out his material.

I recommend this for all Brian Keene fans and aspiring horror authors

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pining for Laws
5.0 out of 5 stars in case you thought it was easy.
Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015
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An accurate and satisfying look into the inner workings of one of the finest representatives of the working creative class, Brian Keene.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wish there was a print version...
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2015
I don't do e-books and don't intend to start (sorry, but I have a million reasons for my stubbornness, and believe me, you don't want to hear 'em!) but I read many of these essays back when they were on Keene's website, and I miss them now that they've been taken down. So this is a plea as much as it is a review -- if you make a print copy available through print-on-demand or whatever, I'd definitely buy it even if it's three times the price. As is, people with e-readers should definitely snag this. The Dorchester saga and the stories about idiot-troll Nicky are worth the price of admission all by themselves.
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Frank Pharaoh
3.0 out of 5 stars Brian Keene's Website: A History
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2015
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UPDATE: Review edited FOR ACCURACY! Because Brian very politely (heh...) wanted me to let you guys know of a couple things I got wrong. I fixed them! Of note though is the fact that while you used to be able to read 80% of these essays on Brian's site, you can't now. You can only buy the book to read them here now, because capitalism.

2ND UPDATE: Review updated FOR HURT FEELINGS! To sum up: some of the "essays" (because that's a very loose term here) are actually very, very good. But honestly, more than half of the blog posts featured here should've and could've been cut...but then Brian wouldn't have had a long enough book, would he? Had the book been carefully selected, this review would be a lot more positive. There are a few excellent essays in here (buy the book just for "The Dorchester Wars"), but they're in between a ton of blog filler.

TRIGGER WARNINGS is mostly a collection of Keene's website/blog posts from the past few years. Pretty disappointing to a long-time Keene fan. No intro, no footnotes (because the book's timeline is all over the place, and new readers will be VERY confused), and only ONE new essay.

Rather than any essay being extended, each one (minus copy-edits) is almost just exactly like it was when Brian originally posted it on his website. Sans the rare author's note, there's no additional thoughts, and Keene doesn't even try to hide the fact that these were all free blog posts once. He says "blog post" many times throughout, references the website, etc. Nearly no effort at all has been made to turn any of these into proper essays. (Cue the chorus of people telling me "You just don't get what he was doing here.")

Readers new to Keene, who want to hear what their new fave has to say but can't afford to hunt down his expensive Hail Saten books: a lot of this book is simply Keene describing what he did one weekend several years ago, with a dash of opinions on various subjects thrown in. 80% of the "essays" in this book are merely free blog posts Keene writes for his author site. (And most of them are but a page of two long, over before they even started.) But since you're new to Keene, a lot of the book's references will simply confuse you--and since there's been no effort to explain anything to the casual reader here, you might get lost. No footnotes, annotations, nada.

Readers old to Brian Keene: you've read this all before. Now, it is pretty cool to have a history of Keene's past few years here, and a lot of Keene's points are still VERY valid. Several of the blog posts that actually feel like real essays are the ones that go into the life of a writer, and they're always honest and open, probably even moreso than you remember. But to me, this still just feels like an easy cash grab with the minimalist amount of effort put in. For example: compare this book's cover to any of the Hail Saten covers...

Honestly, this book is really just for those of you who want to re-read some of Keene's old blog posts but don't want to go looking through the pages of his website. There are some amazing points here, but they're all dated by the content surrounding them. Ironically, none of the essays are given dates themselves though, so if you're looking for context, you're out of luck. There's five speeches, a whopping 3 published articles, and a couple rare essays seen in some limited editions. The rest have all appeared for free on Brian's site or tumblr or other blog. For those counting, about 40/50 of these have been widely read before, for free.

So yeah: five bucks to take a trip down blog memory lane. (It's like that one author who tweets 100 times a day and then collected her tweets into a book.) Should you buy it? It depends on how good your memory is...Aspiring horror writers should find some good advice in here, but at the end of the day, Trigger Warnings is really just a blog archive. Brian's been talking about writing a memoir one day, so a collection of blog posts from the past few years just begs the question: why not wait another decade and use these all as notes for a proper autobiography?
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MR J LAMBERT
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Non-fiction From Horror Grand Master
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 1, 2022
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I have only in the last few years discovered the wonderful horror writing of Brian Keene. He's one of the most consistently brilliant writers in that field. His non-fiction is also of the highest standard. Trigger Warnings offers a fascinating insight in the life of a full-time writer. It is honest, unflinching, touching, funny and wise.
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Stewart
5.0 out of 5 stars Honest and Blunt
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2020
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Mr Brian Keene ,does not take his musings lightly, he tells it like it is ,and if you are thinking of becoming a writer this man will point you in the right direction, if you have the slightest desire of becoming a mid level witer as he calls himself this book will help you on your way ,enjoy
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