Being a review of books read while travelling, rather than a review of travel books, in less than more than around 100 150 words.
Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens has led a fascinating life. Perhaps best known as the author of god Is Not Great, he has also been witness, as a journalist, to almost every major conflict of the last 30 years. Despite bemoaning his own lack of skill at poetry and fiction, he is surely one of the most literate persons alive, and his autobiography is as laden with allusion and literary reference as it is with his signature cutting wit. The list of notables he counts among his friends are as remarkable as those he recounts duelling with, and the stories of friendship and combat are filled with pathos and intimacy, as well as well-delivered humour. The anecdote wherein he is paddled by the Iron Lady, future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is a hilarious, hardly-to-be-believed example.
The book also includes a brutal, honest account of both gulf wars, that will leave you sobbing tears of joy and despair. All told, Hitchens tells his own story with honesty and clarity, and if he occasionally comes across as pompous and proud, well he does so with inimitable style, and I for one cannot fault him.
Hitch-22 - Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens has led a fascinating life. Perhaps best known as the author of god Is Not Great, he has also been witness, as a journalist, to almost every major conflict of the last 30 years. Despite bemoaning his own lack of skill at poetry and fiction, he is surely one of the most literate persons alive, and his autobiography is as laden with allusion and literary reference as it is with his signature cutting wit. The list of notables he counts among his friends are as remarkable as those he recounts duelling with, and the stories of friendship and combat are filled with pathos and intimacy, as well as well-delivered humour. The anecdote wherein he is paddled by the Iron Lady, future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, is a hilarious, hardly-to-be-believed example.
The book also includes a brutal, honest account of both gulf wars, that will leave you sobbing tears of joy and despair. All told, Hitchens tells his own story with honesty and clarity, and if he occasionally comes across as pompous and proud, well he does so with inimitable style, and I for one cannot fault him.
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