Christopher Hitchens: Love this book, love those bookshelves, hate that booze and those cigs that are taking him away.

He's such a great writer. He makes me laugh, he makes me think. I agree with him only on certain issues. I want to quote so many lines from the book but there are simply too many. He's especially effective when he's talking about his love for the United States and his reasons for becoming an American citizen.

I take the attitude that even though his father died of esophageal cancer, and he obviously knew that all that drinking (man, does he enjoy his drinking) and smoking would mix badly with those genes, it was his god-given (ha!) right to keep on doing both. And now he's dying of esophageal cancer. I think he may have stopped the cigs, but I don't know about the booze. I highly recommend the book if you like grumpy oddballs with a great command of the English language.

And yes, those are book shelves in the middle picture. At first, I thought "oh wow! Hitchens keeps his books in huge piles like I keep mine!" But on closer inspection I think they are shelves.