There are people we love to hate and there are people we hate to love. (For the latter, Jay Mohr comes to mind for me.) Christopher Hitchens elicits strong opinions on both sides, with not a lot of room left in the middle. We seem to either love him or revile him.
Despite myself, I like him. Even though he is bull-headed, smug, and has a strange obsession with hating Bill Clinton, I do like Christopher Hitchens. He has a new memoir coming out this week and I would love to read it.
Book website
The Hitchens Web
Christopher Hitchens Online Directory
The Hitchens Zone
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Also out this week is a book I missed in hardcover, but is still on my "gotta read" list. Kevin Roose delivers UNLIKELY DISCIPLE: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University. When he was a Brown University sophomore, Roose transferred to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, to explore the true nature of America's culture war.
Described as "timely, hilarious and thought-provoking," this book deserves to be on the reading table of anyone who likes religious discourse or personal memoir.
Maybe this one will be on the beach reading list (come on, July!)
author website
Hachette
Twelve
Grand Central
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