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.
Nerd4nerd here too, and this is a book I used for screening too when I was in dating sights. It had incredibly weird attitudes about women (god the wade and the sex dolls chapter), super nostalgia for nostalgias sake/tell me every word in the script of ROTJ attitudes, etc… it was very useful in signposting the kind of nerd I didn’t want.
I thought Spielberg and his writer for rpo did a fantastic job of mixing nostalgia with a new story. Whereas the book read like it was written by ai or something. And that’s coming from someone who absolutely hates nostalgia (like I hate the force awakens).
Definitely DO NOT read his Ernest Cline’s spoken word. It’s so cringe