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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
📖 Common Sense by Thomas Paine

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From the Onion🤣🤣🤣

Some of this is dated with opaque and oblique references that were way above me- not exactly an introductory text, but fun and informative to read nonetheless.

This wasn't an easy to read. Hitchens uses a difficult and highly educated English, which makes it hard to keep track. Especially for foreigners like me. But this book sure is worth the struggle. I've learned a lot about Orwell! Hitchens shows us a human being behind the big name, he doesn't glorify Orwell, but instead also writes about Orwells faults. If you want to learn more about Orwells life, I can only recommend this book.

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My husband was cleaning out some book shelves and he came across this - what a find - I love #Hitchens and I loved 1984 (#ThatsClassic) so this is definitely on my TBR list!

Make a great day everyone -

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer with his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her.

The history of skepticism is one that has, as Hitch put, been burned out and stamped out. It‘s comforting to have this collection of writing from the past that can give me the feeling of an intellectual interconnectedness to a historical tradition of unbelief. Especially when that history is a poetic literary tradition. #skeptic #atheist #unbelief #agnostic #Hitchens