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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    How comes you dislike Lawrence so much? I remember reading a collection of short stories from him and quite enjoying them. Maybe it’s because I usually don’t read much after the 19th century that I overlooked some glaringly obvious shortcomings, maybe something is overdone and to me it seemed new and refreshing? I don’t know, I would consider his work well written at the very least and I was be surprised to hear someone mention him in the same vein as Dan Brown or the book of Mormon.