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Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and literature. He is a fervent atheist, raised as a Christian, by a mother whose Jewish heritage was not revealed to him until her suicide. In other words, Christopher Hitchens contains multitudes. He sees all sides of an argument. And he believes the personal is political. This is the story of his life, lived large.
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I read about 40 percent of this and just couldn't get through it. I can see glimpses of Hitchens' brilliant writing. But I listened to the audiobook and it was Hitchens narrating. He is not a good narrator, although occasionally he actually got into it and did a good job. But much of the time he was dull and mumbled. I check this out of the library so after 3 weeks I just didn't have enough interest to finish.
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