"Mortality" by Christopher Hitchens - general discussion

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We'll be reading Mortality by Christopher Hitchens through the end of May.

This thread can be used to give book reviews as well as for a general discussion of the book. Please feel free to start a new discussion in the book club folder if you'd like to focus on specific aspects of or ideas from the book.

[David]

The final book by the great Christopher Hitchens.

Hitch bares all during his final days and in so doing he happily loses none of his wit or intelligence. He was the Hitch we all came to know right up to the end.

My only complaint is that with each turn of the page, the remaining words of Hitch were dwindling down to zero. "These are his last words" kept echoing in my head like some terribly sad background music.

The final chapter by his widow Carol Blue was as heartwarming as it was heart wrenching. A brief personal account of the man from the woman who loved him and knew him best of all.

A wonderful, albeit sad, final book by a man who stayed true to his convictions to the end. A man who was and is and always will be an inspiration to atheists and secularists alike.

RIP Hitch.

[Jimmy]

I like the quote he used from Montaigne: "Religion's surest foundation is the contempt for life."

Does anyone have any thoughts on what that quote means?

[Tony]

I'm about to start listening to this book. This will be my second Hitchens book. I'd like to know what other books of his people like best. I read God is not Great last year. This was not one of my favorites, but then I'm sure I missed a fair amount (which I have been known to do with audiobooks.)

[Jimmy]

Hitch-22.