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What book, if a potential date has rated it 5 stars, would immediately make you swipe left? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by newenglandredshirt@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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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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[–] NightWolfRose@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Thank you kindly! I’ll be hitting up the nonfiction section of my local bookshops to try and find them.

I’ve always been curious about that period in history.