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.
Battlefield Earth, on the other hand… >!/s!<
Was a better, more poignant story than Flowers for Algernon. That’s for damn sure.
Y’know, I don’t hate Battlefield Earth. It’s actually pretty entertaining as trash pulp scifi goes. It just goes on for SO LONG.
My copy from 1983 says it was soon to be made into a Motion Picture. I wish they had waited another 20 years to make it.