![]() ![]() Of course, his spectacular conversion, if that is the word, from left to right, if that is how to put it, has dismayed many of his former comrades or colleagues, and a good deal of his career since 9/11 has been spent pugnaciously defending himself against the outrage visited upon him for becoming, inter alia, a flag-waver for the second Gulf war. I consider Runciman no slouch, although privately wondered how it could be possible that Hitchens could produce an unlikeable book. T wo things, penury aside, stopped me buying this book when it came out in hardback: the title, and a withering review in the London Review of Books by David Runciman, the gist of which was that the book was self-serving, not intentionally funny, and - his closing words - "very hard to like, never mind love". ![]()
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