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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    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t put it as 5/5, but I didn’t mind It Ends with Us, despite being a mid-30s male. It’s not high art that I’ll put alongside literature greats, and I wouldn’t buy it, or even get it from the library again and give it a reread, but it absolute did what it set out to achieve. It told a solid tale with meaning behind it, in fan fiction language.

    For that reason, I’d give it a 4/5.
    Actually, 3.5/5. Who the fuck calls their child Ryle or Atlas. Or even worse, Rylee?