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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
And for somebody as intellectually pretentious as Orwell to suggest his prose is anything approaching simple is a bad joke. He writes in a deliberately snotty style recently cribbed by Hitchens. I love reading Hitchens and I never think "Wow, this guy should write in a simpler fashion."
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Richard Dawkins did a TLS book review of "God Is Not Great," which is kind of like Ty doing a book review of Gravity's Rainbow. Still, even he had to blush over the controversy of Hitchens's line about the Catholic church's policy on child abuse being, in the Latin phrasing, "No child's behind left." The point being that sometimes Hitchens's wicked style gets in the way of his point.
