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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      Yeah, the sisters. Then the two men who love eachother. So much vividly descriptive prose. The mountains at the end. His short stories are really great too. I think people need to remember his books were written a hundred years ago, by a guy born in the 19th century and that for their time they were mind-blowingly, lush, sensual, political, cerebral blablblahlah written by a guy from a working class coal mining family. They don’t read the same as they would then. His work was banned…