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Full title	God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything ^[permalink]
Language	English
Author	Christopher Hitchens (author)
Publisher	Twelve
Category	Religion
Publication year	2007
ISBN	978-0-446-50945-9 ^{[Amazon, B&N, Abe, Powell's]}
Pages	354
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Structure	[Toggle visibility] One: Putting It Mildly Two: Religion Kills Three: A Short Digression on the Pig: or, Why Heaven Hates Ham Four: A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous Five: The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False Six: Arguments from Design Seven: Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament Eight: The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One Nine: The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths Ten: The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell Eleven: "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings Twelve: A Coda: How Religions End Thirteen: Does Religion Make people Behave Better? Fourteen: There Is No "Eastern" Solution Fifteen: Religion as an Original Sin Sixteen: Is Religion Child Abuse? Seventeen: An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism Eighteen: A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational Nineteen: In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment Acknowledgments References Index

Full title	Mortality ^[permalink]
Language	English
Authors	Christopher Hitchens (author), Graydon Carter (foreword) and Carol Blue (afterword)
Publisher	Twelve
Categories	Anthology, autobiography, essay and memoir
Publication year	2012
ISBN	978-1-4555-2347-4 ^{[Amazon, B&N, Abe, Powell's]}
Pages	104
Synopsis	Mortality is a very short collection of essays that Hitchens wrote for Vanity Fair about his diagnosis of and living with oesophageal cancer. There are forays into other topics, but the essays mainly concern his living with cancer and all that that implies. "To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?"
Review	It's a very short book, but the essays are interesting. If you're familiar with Hitchens' output, then you know what to expect.
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