I’ll go with the low-hanging fruit: Mein Kampf. I’ve read it, cover to cover. As a piece of propaganda, it’s good. As an example of good writing? Absolutely not (though I will admit I have only read it in translation). Oh, and the whole fascist, racist, and generally shitty worldview of the author that he infuses into the text. And the fact that the author is literally Hitler. You 5-star that book? You’re a Nazi. Period. And as a Jewish person, I don’t look too kindly on them.

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      Yep, we read parts in my college class on the Holocaust. I got it out of the library, though.

      I love opera and have a few books on Wagner, and I regularly get asked if I’m a Nazi when people see them, that’s enough for me. I don’t need Mein Kampf on the shelf!

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      Again, my comment was regarding the special situation around this book in Germany.

      The question was who I would swipe left on, not who I would judge worldwide for their book shelf.