A review by casualblasphemy
The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens

5.0

This collection would be worth reading if all it contained was Hitchens' brilliant, excoriating Introduction. But that is followed by writings from more than 40 of history's greatest thinkers--Einstein, Orwell, Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russel, et al.--often with explanatory paragraphs from Hitchens. It is not the collection of polemics that I thought--indeed, feared--it might turn out to be. It's far more nuanced and compelling than that. A far more interesting read than any holy text I've encountered to date.