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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
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.
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Being a grandstanding class clown most of my life, I appreciate that. And the book is highly readable. It's filled with great little tricks like that, which, IMO, you need to lighten an otherwise vicious polemic.
I think Hitchens knows he gets in his own more than any rebuttal to his usually well grounded arguments. My suspicion is that he does that on purpose for amusement.
