Reviews of Books by Christopher Hitchens:

** God is Not Great – Christopher Hitchens - I believe in Goad. Christopher Hitchens doesn't. He loses a star for not successfully refuting any reasons why I believe in Goad. That is, to Hitchens’ it would seem that all God’s are equal. He refuted some common beliefs about God. However, I am a believer in God, and Hitchens’ failed to attack my idea of what Gd is.

** Why Orwell Matters – Christopher Hitchens – I admit, I don’t understand much of this book, as it contains many references to people and their writing, which I am unfamiliar with. The thing that strikes me most about this book is that it seems Hitchens’ wants to show off his vast knowledge, which is so great that it is practically silly. Of Orwell’s works, I have only finished reading Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. I would describe Hitchens’ book as well done pus. My guess is that the book is using a play on the word “Matters” that none of its reviewers on the jacket caught, definition 1 being to discharge pus, while definition 2 means to be of importance. For example, definition 1 might abstractly refer to Orwell’s contradictions, while definition 2 means that Orwell was in fact of great importance. This sort of attitude is typical of Christopher Hitchens and is quite amusing, and in the book Orwell is to. Overall a grey picture of Orwell is painted, some things about him are likable, but many people did not like him, such is the way of most people, like Orwell, that think profound thoughts. For example, Hitchens reports that Orwell was a homophobe, but then also reports highlights of some hints of homoeroticism in some of his lesser known works. As usual, with Orwell, and his word fearsome word “doublethink,” it takes one to know one, as Hitchens shows Orwell was deeply engrossed in doublethink himself.