Arguably

In my list of the must reads. 👍

The book is absolutely brilliant and a lot bigger than it looks in the pictures.

So you think you're smart and know a lot of things?

Nice

Love it

Wonderful book

Good read

Hitchens always managed to amaze me.

Everything this man has written is very interesting and worth reading.

Ouvrage hautement antipathique d'un polémiste presque systématiquement négatif, très surévalué aux Etats-Unis probablement en raison de son engagement auprès des néoconservateurs et de sa célébration de l'invasion de l'Irak dans son livre de 2003 "A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq".Les articles de critique littéraire recueillis dans cet ouvrage ne sont pour la plupart que des exercices de mauvaise foi et de malveillance (v. en particulier le dénigrement imbécile de Somerset Maugham dans "W. Somerset Maugham : Poor Old Willie").A éviter !

My belated introduction to the writing of Christopher Hitchens came following his premature death earlier this year. A name I had heard, but never followed up, I was moved to discover more about the man by reading 'Hitch-22', a memoir, mentioned in an obituary in a leading daily newspaper. What a revelation! A master of the art of writing; informed, articulate, controversial, readable in the extreme. Hitchens' prose is masterful. He draws you into the subject of the piece gently, but, firmly at the same time and leaves you the wiser and also very conscious of your own short comings as a writer and general user of the English language. 'Hitch-22' encouraged me to read more from Hitchens, resulting in my purchase of this anthology of essays.'Arguably' is a big book! Crammed full of Hitchens, I am making impressive progress, simply, because I can't put it down until my arms get so tired from the shear physical effort of holding this colossal volume in a reading position. Hitch, as he was more affectionatly known, is to my mind the modern day George Orwell. His socialism and subsequent disillusionment with the system run a similar parallel to Orwell. Both masters of their art and should be held as true national gems.I can't praise this anthology more; enjoy it, read it, get angry, feel good, perhaps even cry a little for the sad loss, at far too early an age, of probably one of the greatest essayists our nation has produced.

Ottimo, consigliatissimo

Hitchens' life led him not only through the interesting times in his own country of birth, but a lot of places in the whole world were history happened: Cuba, Czechoslowakia, Bosnia, The Middle East and so on. Now I can imagine what shaped this man's versatile points of view. Hitchens grew from a predictable 68er to a experienced traveller, whose opinions on recent as well as past issues are worth reading, even if oneself disagrees with him.In this book you can read about a lot of past political issues in the US, and some views on people of interest. It is fun to judge the author's opinions from the future point of view; I took good lessons for my own political thinking.