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God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens (read 2008) ... Cannot Hold - Elyn R. Saks
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God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
Farewell, My Subaru - Doug Fine
Comfort Me With Apples - Ruth Reichl God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens (read 2007) ... I was impressed with Spinoza's intensive analysis of human emotion but not so much by his pantheistic ramblings.
200 God is Not Great I listened to this one on disc, (which I've decided isn't cheating). It has a lot of interesting and diverse stories both historical and contemporary. I ... 15th book, celebrating with a piece of cake haha. Anyways, the last book I borrowed off a friend God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens. Amazing, amazing, and one more time for good measure, amazing book! I found that the author's research, which went into ... 1/50 - Completed God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Well I finished my first book on the road to 50 by next 4th of July. I must say that I truly enjoyed this book. It was a timely read for me and quite honestly, it helped alleviate some of the guilt I'd been feeling for awhile ... ...
Of course if you just don't want to read about Christianity in any form you're probably SOL in most of the 200's.
200 - God is Not Great - I've been impressed when I've heard Hitchens speak so I expect this will be entertaining
211 - The God Delusion
211 - Why I Am Not a Christian and Ot ... 5/89
200 Religion God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens
219 No longer used -- formerly Analogies
220 Bible The Year of Living Biblically - A. J. Jacobs
230 Christian theology Mere Christianity - C. S. Lewis
277 Christian church in North America ... ... book, and I enjoy his columns in Vanity Fair and Slate, even if I disagree with a lot of it.
I will probably never read God is Not Great because I'm already an anti-theist, and there are better books on the subject. One day Hitchens might realize that cataloging the horrible acts done in ... I happened to be at a bookstore and picked up Christopher Hitchens' god is not Great the day it released (May, '07). MrsHouseLibrary wanted to underscore passages, highlight sections and marginalia the bejeesuss out of the thing, but it being a First Edition, I wouldn't let her. She's been ... 6. God is not great by Christopher Hitchens
I made a last 'lunge' at this one last night to finish it off. Compared to The God Delusion, Hitchens felt very rambling, and not altogether as clear and concise as he should have been. Having reflected on it overnight, though I found ... 14. April 15th - god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens. I'm just finishing off God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens. An interesting read, but his writing style isn't doing much for me, as I have to keep re-reading pages since I've lost the thread of what he was saying. I've enjoyed it, but he is very digressive.
Next up, I'm going to try ... ... to find other books in (what I'll loosely call) the genre, hence the Christopher Hitchens.
Having almost finished God is not Great, it's hard not to do a 'compare and contrast' on these two books since the approach the subject of religion and God in two very different ways. Dawkins is ( ... ... undoubtedly wrong, but I don't fancy looking for the right one...): Taking this one on little bites. Lovely though.
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens: Almost finished this one. Quite rambling and digressive, but gives you lots to chew over. Possibly a bit too strident for my ... Thanks for sharing your thoughts on A Thousand Splendid Suns (on my list for this year) and God is Not Great (not on my 999 list, but sitting here in the kitchen just beckoning to me...). Happy reading! #5) God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens is a social critic and journalist known for his pithy commentary on current events. Pgs read-I'll get back to you on that...
Running total pgs read-on this too...
I highly recommend this book for those who find the current stranglehold of ... ... heart set on Guidelines for Pressure Relief and Effluent Handling Systems, but instead I chose from LisaMorr's library, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. ... by Sheri Holman
#3-The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
#4-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#5-God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#6-Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
... by Sheri Holman
#3-The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
#4-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#5-God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#6-Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
... Sheri Holman
#3 is The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver
#4 is A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
#5 is God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
#6 is Break No Bones by Kathy Reichs
#7 is Winter Study by Nevada Barr
... one much.
I have to say though, that it's funny the way things works out. The order in which I read The God Delusion, God is Not Great and The End of Faith was perfect. In my perspective I went from the least offensive to the most in order. Finished God is Not Great this morning. While I enjoyed the book, it is pretty hostile. With this book I can see why people were angry about. It is definitely antagonistic and goes out of it's way to be rude, unlike the Dawkins book Then again, look at the source. Hitchens isn't exactly ... ... taught me a great deal about a culture I was not familiar with. A touching tale of friendship between two brave women.
God Is Not Great-Authors New To Me
Stunning work by a journalist well-known for his contentious opinions on contemporary issues gives us his take on the age-old question ... ... Splendid Suns which didn't work in touchstones last time, and I will do the review tomw since it is late. This is # 3 and God is Not Great will be #4-almost done with this fascinating book. I have to see where they fit in my 999 challenge, too. ... health and mental health is now well understood to have a strong connection to the sexual function, or dysfunction."
God Is Not Great ... it andThe Mammoth Cheese I thought I would be done with The Post Birthday World but I put it down and picked up God Is Not Great by THE DEFINITELY great Christopher Hitchens and have not been able to put it down. So I guess that will be my 4th book but I jumped the gun or I just can't ... ... sur le devenir des personnages - voilà qui casse le rythme et le style du roman. Néanmoins, une lecture agréable.
11. God is not Great de Christopher Hitchens
Un tract contre la religion qui rassemble des arguments persuasifs, une recherche approfondie et un point de vue différent. Hitc ... ... a "teleatheist", are not convincing and propose no debate. It's all about authenticating the miracles. I hope my next read God is not great will offer more food for thought (I was hoping one would offset the other).
I'm also reading The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch's testimony about fighting ... Hopefully you won't be spending Xmas Eve alone....
Happy reading over the holiday break.
My husband read God is Not Great and was so enthralled with it that he kept reading passages to me.
I'll see if I can obtain a copy of The God Delusion for him.
All good wishes for a happy and ... Thanks Whisper!
Happy Holidays to you too, and all the 75ers!
If you have read my comments on God is Not Great and The God Delusion you'll know I'm not religious but I am all for celebrating the pagan ritual of the winter solstice. And it is certainly winter-solsticing out there in this ... ...
2. Autobiographie d'un épouvantail de Boris Cyrulnik
3. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar de Thomas Cathcart
4. God is not Great de Christopher Hitchens
5. Mindless Eating de Brian Wansink
6. Payback, Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth de Margaret Atwood
7. The Lost Massey Lec ... ... Too Much - Peter Walsh (230)
140. Starbucked - Taylor Clark (297)
141. Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (335)
142. God is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens (307)
143. Why Women Should Rule the World - Dee Dee Myers (280)
144. Does this Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? - Peter Walsh (2 ... ... estine
2. Tom Holland - Persian fire
3. Adam Hochschild - King Leopold's Ghost
4. Christopher Hitchens - God is not great
5. Geert Mak - In Europa
6. David Rothkopf - Superclass
I don't know about the others yet. I think I'll have some interesting fiction too. ... Domination by Steve Callaghan
15. Final Impact by John Birmingham
16. The Gallatin Divergence by L. Neil Smith
17. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
18. Deleted
19. Homeland Security Scams by James Bennett
20. I Am America (And So Can You!) ... ... shelves jogged my memory; I have also read the following books this year:
25. The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
26. God Is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens
27. Shakespeare: The World As Stage, Bill Bryson
28. The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
29. Common Sense Econom ... ... Plague
The Stranger
Swann's Way
Shakespeare Goes to Paris* (also: nonfiction)
Atheism and other nonfiction
God Is Not Great
Misquoting Jesus
Why I Am Not a Christian
Six Easy Pieces
The Fundamentals of Extremism
Getting Off
Freethinkers: A History of American Sec ... I recently finished god is not great by Christopher Hitchens, and it was okay. I'm not convinced that anyone will suddenly see the light by reading an atheist book - just give them a bible, koran, one of the vedas, etc and anyone should be able to figure out that it is all ridiculous with little ... #29 Did you read God Is Not Great, Arctic? Your comment about Dawkins is valid but I'm not sure this can be applied to Hitchens. He really knows his stuff. ... discussions I have with a devout Christian friend. He has not read any atheist literature so I challenged him to read God Is Not Great and asked him to suggest a book that I should read. He hasn't suggested one yet.
30. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens ... it was so good, so cogent, so well-reasoned that I need to own it. I also read and can recommend Christopher Hitchens' God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything and found that to be a marvelous and easy read as well. I've read Richard Dawkins stuff as well -- it was a little ... ... I managed to finish off two more books: A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews, and Gentiles by Stanley K. Stowers, and God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens. Neither was terribly fantastic. Stowers is, ultimately, unconvincing in many aspects of his ... ... and biblical exegesis to flesh out their discussions. We learned from each other.
I greatly enjoyed Hitchens' God is not Great -- but would agree with some of this thread's participants that atheists, like believers, do not form a monolithic group.
Has anyone here read Susan Jaco ... ... etc. But, as it were, thirty minutes and two drinks later they implicitly confirm it. Such is the case, for example, in God is Great, where Christopher Hitchens dubs the trilemma “so pathetic as to defy description,” yet elsewhere argues that the Jesus legend probably stems from the ... I found God is Not Great very compelling - I also read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins this year and I must say they are two books that have changed my thinking - in that they gave some focus to what I obviously really believed. I do find well thought out logic hard to argue with. There ... 20. God is not Great : how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens was already one of my favorite Slate.com columnists before I picked this up. It gives very compelling examples of why religion is the worst thing humanity could have thought up.
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The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard
Non fiction:
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Shultz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk ... is some kind of evil buzz word for many born agains-right up there with atheist or feminist). I'd avoid books like god is not great-at least, if she wants to keep him around for a while. There are also a few good books out there on humanism (Humanism, what's that?: A book for curious ... I've been looking for God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens for some time. I keep seeing it on Ebay, but if I want it in decent condition I'll end up paying nearly full price once you throw in shipping. ... of people portray the target audience as the third group, the Christians, but I don't think that's quite right. The title god is not Great is very inflammatory; most Christians would refuse to pick it up on principle. Someone who's not sure either way might be scared off by its obvious ... ... kinds of books.
(Edited for embarrassing typo.)
Also edited to prove touchstone works just fine with small 'g.'
god is not Great ... been thinking about this for a while, and Modalursine just brought it up in a thread about the Christopher Hitchens book God is not Great.
All of the current atheist books are pretty much preaching to the choir, or at the very least, to someone who is about to topple off the fence, anyway.
... Okay, I'm a million miles behind you guys, but I just read god is not Great over the last few days and I adored it. It's so much more accessible than The End of Faith in my humble opinion. I know several of you have said you think Hitchens is an 'angry' writer, but I didn't sense that much at ... God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens was a bit of an easier read - more on the history of religion than Dawkins gets into.
I have another Dawkins book to tackle - The Ancestor's Tale - better wait until my brain has nothing else to think about! ... reasoned rational viewpoint and let them decide from there.
I am going to get The Portable Atheist and am considering God is not Great and Letter to a Christian Nation.
What other books, essays, websites etc.. would you recommend?
... for it or something. However, I would be much more likely to recommend this to someone than, say, The God delusion or God is not great. Not that I see myself needing to recommend it to anyone really.
2. Laika by Nick Abadzis
So this was my first graphic novel ever. I did like it, ... I started reading God is Not Great as my first book. So far its presenting a really, really interesting discussion of religion v. science. ... around a double murder of a mother and child in 1984.. An extremely interesting read and very eye-opening. I read God is Not Great a few months ago and now reading Krakauer's organized religion is not doing well in my mind. ... rituality
1. Called to Question by Joan D. Chittister****
2. Not in Kansas Anymore by Christine Wicker
3. God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
4. Life Lines: Holding on and Letting Go by Forrest Church
5. If Grace Is True by ... ... and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The ones I've read (thank you, Happy Heathens group! and others):
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis
A Million Little ... ... and there’s a dog: a mastiff named Babur. (OK, for the dog you may want the tissues handy.)
Not worthwhile:
god is not Great: how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens. Man, I’m sick of Hitchens.
... of Ashes: The History of the CIA
Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A ... ... In?: Incredible Political Animals I have Known, by Molly Ivins
39. 1066 and all that, by Walter Carruthers Sellar
40. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, by Christopher Hitchens
41. Not in Our Classrooms, by Eugine Scott
42. Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking ... Paradise Lost by John Milton
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
The Terror by Dan Simmons
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Freidrich Engels 18. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
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Hard Cover ... than his others.
Most recently I've read and enjoyed Walter Isaacson's biography Einstein: His Life and Universe, and God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. ... Diamant; Monday Mourning by Kathy Reichs and If Morning Ever Comes by Anne Tyler.
And am almost finished God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens.
Just started The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen - yet to form an opinion.
I just got Money by Martin Amis and God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. I'm reading the Christopher Hitchens one right now. It's all right. I'm learning a lot about religion, especially Islam.
My mom also just gave me A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway. I've only read ... ... health and mental health is now well understood to havea strong connection to the sexual function, or dysfunction.
God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens ... George
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
and The Untouchable by John Banville
Also from the library God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens ... of Dogtown by Anita Diamant. Really enjoyed the latter, the other two were good quick reads.
Am also still reading God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens which is very thought provoking. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens ... showing sales data would seem to support this theory. On an anecdotal level, my husband reads every book that echoes the God Is Not Great theme because it validates his own "beliefs." As for me, I can't imagine I would read a book by Anne Coulter or Dick Cheney. But I wonder how many people ... ... tried reading The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield but couldn't stomach so returned it to the library where I got God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. Fascinating reading.
Still have to finish The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy. Call me tacky, but I'm waiting for the paperback edition of God Is Not Great.
The only reason I have The God Delusion is that my wife gave it to me as a gift...
It is nice to be able to agree with Christopher Hitchens again. Right now, it is just an accident of finances that I have not purchased God is not great. I have read God delusion and Breaking the spell and End of Faith, but I do not think I have entered all 3 into LibraryThing yet.
Often, I am a little slow in absorbing what I read. I feel a fairly ... I was quite surprised to see that so few members of this group own God is not great by Christopher Hitchens. Perhaps it is only a matter of taste, but I found it far more interesting than Letter to a Christian nationor even The God delusion. If you have not overindulged on atheist ... I set aside God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens (and was disappointed in his 3 hour BookTV interview). I was in the mood for some fiction so I read Little Children by Tom Perrotta (I can now netflix the movie) and just started The Last Resort by Alison Lurie. I hope to get ... God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens ... health and mental health is now well understood to have a strong connection to the sexual function, or dysfunction." God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
The Autobiography of God by Julius Lester
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
I plan to read all three concurrently.
All of them are from the public library. This weekend the Chapel Hill public library is having one of its big book ... ... by Mark Hertsgaard, The Tender Bar by J.R.Moehringer, Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks).
Adjacent to my computer sits God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens which I began reading yesterday. 7. God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens 23. Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov 4/5
24. Scourge of God by William Dietrich 3/5
25. God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens 5/5
26. A Creationist's View of Dinosaurs and the Theory of Evolution by Jim Pinkoski 0/5
27. Over ... I just started reading God is not great : how religion poisons everything by Christopher Hitchens. ... stop and B&N to get a gift card for my sister today, and my daughter and I decided to do a little shopping. I ended up with God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Melymbrosia and The Stones Of Summer. Let me just add that I got the Virginia Woolf book, which is a hardcover, ... I tend to read in thematic binges. Right now I am on my anti-religion binge that was prompted by God is Not Great. So, I just finished Letter to Christian Nation and have begun to read End of Faith.
Of the current crop, I only read God Is Not Great, which was enjoyable because when Hitchens gets going, his screeds can get pretty funny.
I've read a lot of books on skepticism, particularly the books that came directly before publishers seriously got on the bandwagon.
Michael Shermer ... How is God is Not Great so far? I am really interested in reading that book, although I somewhat fear that reading it on the train will cause me to be shunned (kidding, mostly). ... and becomes a strong woman. Of course, by the end of the book she has to. I defiantly recommend.
Currently reading:
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
Tithe by Holly Black Today I finished God is not Great and started Ian McEwan's Amsterdam. ... Keep by Janet Lee Carey
Very good so far, Jenson_AKA_DL, but I will let you know what I think when I finish it.
God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
What did you think of God is not Great? I'm waiting for a copy to come in at the library... In the middle of God is not Great & find Hitchens's prose really engaging. He's a little sloppy sometimes - says, for instance, that Freud wasn't a doctor! I'm currently reading god is not Great; maybe 1/4 of the way through it. I happened to find it the day (apparently) it was released, and haven't found it in any bookstores since.
My perspective -- raised RC; had 2 uncles who were Jesuits; Dad spent 7 years in a Seminary before opting out, and ... Excerpts from God Is Not Great are available on Slate http://www.slate.com/id/2165033/
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