books by Christopher Hitchens     books:       Monarchy1 review Christopher Hitchens Chatto&Windus, 1990 great little book Considering it's only 42 pages long, Christopher Hitchens gets a lot done here. He thoroughly trashes the British monarchy by examining five arguments in its favour and striking them down accordingly, not to mention pointing out how some contradict each other. Most impressively, he shows how the common argument that the monarchy lends tone but not interference in politics is pure rubbish, ...             Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited42 reviews Aldous Huxley Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005 Mood controlling pills and uniformity As I watch the commercials for Zoloft and other psychiatric drugs that are frequently encouraged to the general public today thanks to advertising, I can't help but smell the essence of the stew descibed by Huxley in this wonderful book simmering in our own modern kitchen. It is controversal to advertise tobacco but it is perfectly suitable to make the drugs once used to control the mentally ...             Why Orwell matters.(Interview): An article from: Queen's Quarterly1 review Christopher Hitchens, Michael Enright Queen's Quarterly, 2002 Orwell Matters Immensely In this critically acclaimed essay, Christopher Hitchens, in his usual contrarian's irreverent style explores the life and myth of a great political writer and moral philosopher, George Orwell, (1903-1950). Hitchens is both admiring and critical of his hero answering both Orwell's detractors and political claimants on the left and right of the political spectrum. Orwell lives to see the rise of ...             The Mating Season (Penguin Modern Classics)7 reviews P.G. Wodehouse Penguin Classics, 2001 One of the Best and Funniest Books Ever Written Evelyn Waugh, a tight man with a compliment for his fellow authors, referred to P.G. Wodehouse as the Master, and nowhere are the reasons more apparent than in The Mating Season. There is never a dull moment as Bertie Wooster impersonates Gussie Fink-Nottle, Claude Cattermole ("Catsmeat") Pirbright impersonates the non-existent Meadowes, to appear at Deverill Hall as Gussie's personal ...             Animal Farm and 198425 reviews George Orwell Harcourt, 2003 Worthy literature that transcends the genre of political fable This is a handsome republication of Orwell's two most renowned works, Animal Farm and 1984. Even if you're just looking for 1984, this edition is to be commended; it comes with a fine introduction by today's leading Orwell enthusiast, Christopher Hitchens, and the reward of including Animal Farm requires very little in the way of additional effort or expense on your part. At 80-odd pages, you ...             Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)63 reviews Graham Greene Penguin Classics, 2007 An Entertaining Footnote to History Graham Greene, a major, well-known 20th century British author, had a very long life, most of the century, and a very long and prolific writing career. He may be best known for "The Third Man," "The End of the Affair," and "The Power and the Glory," but his books were greatly honored, highly-praised by the critics, generally best sellers, and often made into movies. As was "Our Man in Havana," ...             Regime Change1 review Christopher Hitchens Penguin Books Ltd, 2003 Guided by facts, Hitchens nailed it with remarkable foresight This gripping series of essays was written during 2002 and 2003 for the online magazine Slate. In the author's words, the intention was that of testing short-term analyses against longer term ones, whilst subjecting long-term convictions to shorter-term challenges. The essays are presented unchanged; only a short preface, an introduction and an epilogue have been added. In the introduction, ...             From Russia with Love (Penguin Modern Classics)59 reviews Ian Fleming Penguin Classics, 2002 Unexpected and Fun They couldn't write a book like this today. For example, the main character--Bond--doesn't even show up until page 123! The entire first third of the book is a detailed following of the villains plotting Bond's death. It's not until we get to the execution that we meet James Bond. Be that as it may, I found it to be an interesting change of pace, and I was never bored. There is more ...             Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)43 reviews Evelyn Waugh Penguin Classics, 2000 Waugh's farce about the newspaper trade and making a name for oneself Evelyn Waugh's send-up of the newspaper business, and where in other novels he could be bitterly satirical, here he's wildly farcical and broadly comical. William Boot, a nature writer for the DAILY BEAST, ("Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" is given as an example of his "high-class style" of writing), is mistaken for the novelist John Boot and is sent to the African ...             Does modern science undermine atheism? Prominent atheist Antony Flew has announced that the latest science ...1 review Roy Varghese, Christopher Hitchens Thomson Gale, 2005 An entertaining debate In this amusing article, Roy Varghese and Christopher Hitchens debate the question of modern science undermining atheism. Varghese boasts that Antony Flew, who wrote a splendid paper in 1950 called "Theory and Falsification," now says that science supports a Creation by some sort of First Cause Deity. I'm not entirely sure that Flew really says that (Hitchens does not make the same claim ...             Thomas Paine's " Rights of Man " : A Biography - A Book That Shook the World (Books That Shook the World)8 reviews Christopher Hitchens Atlantic Books, 2007 Hitchens seldom disappoints ...and he doesn't here. Aside from the erudition which always seems to flow from ol' Chris's pen, his subject in this instance is something of an 18th-century soul mate. Maybe this little examination of humanist Paine will go some ways toward raising the general awareness of the man and of his works-- long overdue, like some bit of acknowledgement in D.C.             Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies3 reviews Christopher Hitchens Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990 Thanks again, Hitchens. "Boom! Pow! That's the way it all goes down when C.H. comes to town!" "That's an odd thing for Charlie Rose to say," I remarked to my wife, Sunderquist, the other day. Well, my apologies Mr Rose, you were right on. Right on the money! Hitchens, the leading attack dog of the sensible left, fixes his eye on Brittania and plucks big. Where else were we to learn that Evelyn Waugh thought Buck ...             " Vanity Fair's " Hollywood12 reviews Christopher Hitchens Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2000 Vanity Fair's Hollywood This is truly a fantastic snapshot of Hollywood at it finest hour of every year that awards where given. Every movie goer should have this on thier coffee table.             For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports5 reviews Christopher Hitchens Verso Books, 1994 Best living political essayist in US/UK Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I naturally learned a contempt for journalism as it is currently practiced. The great problem with journalists today, seems to me, is not their slavish conformity, their scandal-mongering, or even their sales-and-marketing obsession with the bottom line. It is their LACK OF IDEAS. They have little or no training in logic, history, aesthetics, or any of the other ...             The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-192113 reviews Isaac Deutscher, Christopher Hitchens Verso, 2003 In view of a forthcoming edition. Firstly, it's necessary to keep in mind that Deustscher was not trying to write a biography of Trotsky- if by that is meant an account of his life for its own sake- nor was he trying to write a history of the Russian Revolution and its leaders as a self-contained account. Deutscher's goals where twofold: to vindicate Trotsky's early opposition against Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party ...             Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis11 reviews Kingsley Amis Bloomsbury USA, 2008 Drinking as an Englishman Should I was delighted with Amis's book on drink,the effects of drink and the types of drink;his underdstudied wit combined with practical alchohol knowledge made for an enjoyable and useful read. Would highly recommend.             The Portable Atheist41 reviews Christopher Hitchens audible.com Of Course, There is no god! How stupid can you be? Monsieur Christopher Hitchens has performed a necessary intellectual work of mercy. Once humankind desists from its vulgar notion of deity, it can begin the tiresome duties of keeping as much of us as possible alive. Since we are competently trained in ancient Semitic and Ind-European languages and theoretical mathematics, we twin brothers know who has been doing the heavy lifting of keeping ...             Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left3 reviews Thomas Cushman, Simon Cottee, ... NYU Press, 2008 Well balanced and researched This book is refreshingly frank and important. It brings together most of the key writing from the 'battle' which has been raging between Hitchens and his critics from the left since September 11th. The juxtaposition in views is prescient - oftentimes squaring off some of the greatest polemicists of our time.             Safe Area Gorazde : The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-199524 reviews Joe Sacco Fantagraphics Books, 2000 The genocide of Muslims by Christians in the 1990s I just finished reading this brilliant work. I was in Eastern Europe in 1991-1993 and saw the refugees coming out of Bosnia. I followed the story as close as I could, even visting a refugee camp. But Sacco's illustrations put me on the ground in the supposed safe zones. The brutality of the supposedly Christian Serbs to Muslim Bosnians is so overwheliming it makes any beheadings in Iraq look like ...             Hons and Rebels (New York Review Books Classics)16 reviews Jessica Mitford NYRB Classics, 2004 Honestly wonderful I absolutely loved this book. I had just finished reading the very long and very good "The Sisters" http://www.amazon.com/Sisters-Saga-Mitford-Family/dp/0393324141 about the Mitfords, and wanted more when I was finished. Jessica ("Decca") was the most fascinating of all -- the one who ran away to Spain and America and became widely known for her politics and her book, "The American Way of ...              search for books 1879-1921, 1992-1995, american, anglo-american, announced, argument, biography, christopher, classics, convinces, critics, distilled, drinking, eastern, enterprise, everyday, gorazde, hitchens, hollywood, interview, kingsley, matters, minority, monarchy, nostalgia, portable, prominent, quarterly, revisited, undermine books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Meditative Therapy: Facilitating Inner-Directed Healing (The Practical ... home  impressum - about us