(December 29, 2015 at 12:44 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: Christopher Hitchens was very smart, but he seemed at times too uptight and stuffy, almost like an author from 40-50 years ago was writing today.
If an elegant and sometimes ferocious prose style combined with a devastating wit and a fearless commitment to pointing out bullshit and injustice is your idea of uptight and stuffy, so be it.
Hitchens easily makes my short list of ideal dinner party companions. I would have gladly knocked back several belts of the good stuff over a nice meal and conversed with him for hours.And 40-50 years ago lands you in the '60s-'70s. Not exactly a period known for uptight or stuffy either in writing or in the culture at large.
Fuck, if Hitchens is stuffy to you, you probably won't get through five pages of my recommendation without lapsing into a coma, but here it is anyway:
Atheism: A Philosophical Justification by Michael Martin
