Reading mine kampf... Social Stigma?

criticalcritic

Bar the kill all Jew part I found it good read with some good ideas

PrincessLola

I heard its pretty sh*tty writing though, like hes basically just whining the whole time. Hitler being a famous dictator doesn't mean his writting would be good.

EGAR

I got it from the local library years ago. Boring, rambling sentences that go on forever, contradictions etc. I read about half of it and then I gave up and brought it back to library. According to the date stamps on it I was the first person in 2 1/2 years to have taken it out..

Namlub

Fenian Army wrote: »

I read it, its a struggle.

Read some of it on the train, got a few funny looks

Hence the name?

Meh, I don't think it's a massive taboo to be reading it. It's meant to be shite though...

OneArt

It's the kind of book you'd keep in the toilet next to the potpourri.

xsiborg

i'd sooner read fifty shades tbh... :rolleyes:

TheChizler

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

TheChizler wrote: »

I read The God Delusion on public transport in Rome during the Beatification of JPII, and no nuns incinerated me with their laser vision, so I wouldn't have any hang-ups about it.

Hmm... Dawkins did'nt kill millions of people though. A little different there I think

But we're talking about people's reaction to seeing you read what can be perceived as a controversial book, not the actions of the author. I'd expect worse reactions to reading Playboy on a bus, for instance.

AceHole

Ah I remember Hitler like I just saw him yesterday...

It was 1940, in a makeshift war office in Ukraine. I had made it to Odessa by smuggling myself aboard a train from St Petersburg.

At 12 years old, and in the height of the war, I thanked god that I was thought German by the Polish Baron that raised me. It had gotten me out of many a run in with the German troops, who were uninterested in apprehending an orphan German boy.

I started running with a street gang of urchins, a pickpocket here, a loaf of bread there.
It kept us alive but it was no life. It was during one of my sortees to the market that I was cornered by some big German soldiers, who demanded to know my nationality.

I told them in perfect German that I was a Bavarian born orphan. I had been taken in by a kind woman who later married a man from Kiev, and they took me to study in Ukraine before the war due to my talent for languages. They asked who my adopting Father was, and I told them the name of some Ukraine SSR commander I had overheard being mentioned.

No sooner had I uttered his name, then I was dragged into custody. After 3 days waiting in a small makeshift cell in an occupied hotel, I was taken to meet the fuhrer himself.

He was interested in everything I knew about this Soviet commander, and his activity's. Having lied about it in the first place I began to spin a web of deceit that fascinated him.

Each night, for 6 weeks, I would fill his ears with scandals. He was so besotted with my information that he decided to take me to Germany with him.

For a month I spun my web, and Hitler became more and more entranced. He used to call me little Barbarossa, It wasn't until I was older that I understood what that meant.

My disinformation would eventually convince Him to march into Russia. Overstraining their resources and signalling the beginning of the end for the Nazi war machine.

It was during this period that I realised I had a talent for espionage, which helped guide me on my way to becoming the International man of mystery that I am today.

Sometimes, between missions. I like to take a bottle of brandy and mull over mein kampf. Imagining how Adolf himself would have spoken it, and, sighing with relief. I would tear a page from the book and cast it into the heart of the fire, and watch the most potent poison ever conceived, burn like so many lost heroes.

EGAR

Sure, *wherever the world needs you**... aber bestimmt!

crazy cabbage

crazy cabbage wrote: »

The God Delusion. Never read it. What is it like? Would you recommend it?

God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens is better.


I wouldn't like to have my financial details associated with a purchase of Mein Kampf though it probably wouldn't be worse than what already exists.

mikemac1

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Tried the audiobook

All over the place

I know it was written in prison but whoever edited it could have at least tidied it up a bit
Twas that lad Hess I think. He's no editor

KenSwee

My wife and I were in the museum at Bastogne in Belgium, when we spotted it in the book shop. We asked one of the curators was it popular and he explained that it is considered a part of WWII history, hence it being on sale.

I think most sensible people consider it that way to and if you are into the history of that period, then I think you should read it.

It's like reading a history of Ireland by Sean Fitzpatrick.

Executive Steve

Deleted User wrote: »

God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens is better.

"All in The Mind: A Farewell to God" by Ludovic Kennedy is even better.



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Franticfrank

I threw my copy of Mein Kampf into the fire, right after 'Going Rogue: An American Life'.

frag420

Jester252 wrote: »

Well op if you were reading this on a bus I might not sit beside you but if its a choice between you reading this or someone reading hardcore porn. You win

Interesting concept...................new to me!!

So if it was a choice of someone fapping to Mein Kampf or fapping to hardcore porn who would win??