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.
I worked in a bookstore during the peak of Celestine hype. So many customers who wanted me to believe in it as hard as they did, and I only wanted to complete the transaction.
Ha! I worked in a bookstore at this book’s peak, too, with the exact same experience! Amongst the booksellers, though, it was known as The Philistine Philosophy.
You don’t say? Thankfully I didn’t think much of it after reading it.
Same here. I read the first three pages standing at the cashwrap one afternoon and was blown away not only by the nonsense of the first few pages but by how just badly it was written.
Ooof. Saaaame. Just buy your stupid book that I am definitely judging you for and go. No I don’t want to hear about it.
Yes! I worked at a bookstore at the time and had so many people say it changed their lives. I was like, “how?”