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Lucy Sixsmith's avatar

'Published by Verso.' is a masterpiece

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Paul Kingsnorth's avatar

I would probably read a book of Christopher Hitchens' sexts, albeit shamefacedly.

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

"With all due respect, when you write that you can take me to "Heaven and back" are you suggesting that there is a real afterlife in which the luckless dead are forced to worship some kind of jumped-up deity as if in some celestial North Korea? Because..."

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Forest's avatar

Paul!

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Roderick Ganiard's avatar

The Limits of Liberalism, Professor John Servative;

Is this a joke or a typo? Who is the author?

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Schwarzgeist's avatar

I thought this was serious until I got to the second entry. Yes, I thought Homo was real, and that you were praising it in a self-effacing way.

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Dominic Heaney's avatar

What a great pity I didn't get round to reading any of these.

Instead I spent months trudging through the interminably lengthy, needlessly self-absorbed (if unusually and positively less pornographic than usual) new Houllebecq, the principal relief in which came in the final paragraph, wherein the author implied he was not going to write any more. Wish he'd put that in the first sentence.

Can't wait for the 380th Christopher Hitchens collection, and another book explaining all the nuances behind Orwell's “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear."

Happy Christmas.

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

Happy Christmas!

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