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		m0zg on Dec 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Favorite nonfiction books of 2018? I tried to read Mein Kampf and could not. The language is just so incredibly bureaucratic and dull that I gave up after 50 pages. Maybe it reads better in German, but I can't read German. I suspect a lot of dogmatic texts are the same way. Rand is at least not a total drag to read even though I find a lot of her ideas hilarious (chief of which is: the very ethical, honest, and hard working rich people).

Tomte on Dec 23, 2018 [–]

I haven't read it, but it's also famous in the German version for being pretty unreadable.

Many people opine that forcing Neonazis to read it may be a way to get them disillusioned.

Hitler's strength was speaking to the masses, not writing.

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