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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    I got about a third of the way through this book before throwing it out of a train window in India.

    I asked a friend who was reading if I could have it next, having bought into the hype and she tried to discourage me, saying it wasn’t that good and would it annoy me.

    She wasn’t wrong.

    Written like an 8 year old trying to string a story together about some hippy nonsense found in a fortune cookie.