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Christopher Hitchens

Born

in Portsmouth, England

April 13, 1949

Died

December 15, 2011

Genre

Politics, Essays, Journalism

Influences

Robert Ingersoll, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, George Orwell, Oscar ...more

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Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist, and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books — the most famous being God Is Not Great — made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Hitchens was a polemicist and intellectual. While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, near the end of his life he embraced some arguably right-wing causes, most notably the Iraq War. Formerly a Trotskyist and a fixture in the left wing publications of both the United ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 641,064 ratings · 23,336 reviews · 157 distinct works • Similar authors

	God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything 3.96 avg rating — 109,142 ratings — published 2007 — 113 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 28,504 ratings — published 2012 — 75 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitch 22: A Memoir 4.02 avg rating — 21,986 ratings — published 2010 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever 4.03 avg rating — 18,778 ratings — published 2007 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters to a Young Contrarian 4.13 avg rating — 12,384 ratings — published 2001 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice 4.06 avg rating — 11,410 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arguably: Selected Essays 4.20 avg rating — 9,749 ratings — published 2011 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author), Sam Harris 3.98 avg rating — 4,378 ratings — published 2019 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial of Henry Kissinger 3.96 avg rating — 4,373 ratings — published 2001 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Why Orwell Matters 3.95 avg rating — 4,059 ratings — published 2002 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

tags: affection, atheism, cats, dogs, food, god, pets, religion, shelter, water

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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, reason, science, skeptic

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“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens

tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion

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A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

4 votes, 23.5%

Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse

4 votes, 23.5%

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

2 votes, 11.8%

Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence

2 votes, 11.8%

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima

2 votes, 11.8%

The Stranger - Albert Camus

1 vote, 5.9%

The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis

1 vote, 5.9%

The Trial of Henry Kissinger - Christopher Hitchens

1 vote, 5.9%

Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Isherwood

0 votes, 0.0%

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