High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The title raised the ire of Christopher Hitchens.A New York Times article about a hostile letter sent to the publisher from the Orwell estate, which cited issues of copyright infringement, precipitated a journalistic and online debate about the book at a time when Orwell's legacy was under question, due to a list of "crypto-Communists" he handed over to the British Foreign Office.Marxists and Orwell admirers also objected to the work.Hitchens accused Reed of being a "Bin Ladenist." As was reported in Australian paper The Age:" Hamilton, of London, said: 'If it were a straight parody, I would say 'Good on you.' But this book seems to take rather than give." Reed said: 'I think that Orwell, were he still alive, would far rather be with me in my novel than sitting in some corporate office preparing lawsuits.'"

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