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 didn’t think it was an amazing book, but I find it interesting that listed here multiple times.
    It just came off as general YA fiction with a weird 80s bent, meaning I couldn’t figure out the target market, to me.
    Definitely not 5/5, but I wouldn’t have said red flag.