YABookgate

[TheMonkeyMan]

It wasn't even all that influential, it didn't sell too well until Hitler had already come to power.

 

[Bulk Bogan]

I've read the book as part of my "Important Historic Works" reading project. Even the Communist Manifesto is kinda well put together, also it at least ends quickly. Reading Mein Kampf was... well, it was like reading any other long-winded and rambling manifesto.

 

[Flexo]

It wasn't even all that influential, it didn't sell too well until Hitler had already come to power.

Hence the review: "He had to conquer Germany to make sales because not even nazis wanted to read it."

I've read the book as part of my "Important Historic Works" reading project. Even the Communist Manifesto is kinda well put together, also it at least ends quickly. Reading Mein Kampf was... well, it was like reading any other long-winded and rambling manifesto.

So it was the original reddit?

 

[Bulk Bogan]

I'll put it this way, Infantry Attacks is a far better autobiographical text from the era and... organization. And really all it is is Rommel bragging about what hot shit he was during the Great War and talking about infantry tactics. I get that it's a different genre, but like I said, rambling manifestos aren't fun to read.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Hence the review: "He had to conquer Germany to make sales because not even nazis wanted to read it."

If you really want a meander into cloud cuckoo land try The Myth of the Twentieth Century by Alfred Rosenberg. Even the other Nazis, from Hitler on down, considered it completely unreadable. Goebbels actually had some funny things to say about it and Roseberg generally in his Diaries. I think I made it about five pages in, and gave up.

Never even attempted F.P. Yockey's Imperium, but I hear that's basically written in the same vein.

 

[Flexo]

Let's play the meme or legit game...

 

[Verpa Teutonica Ingens]

Lobellia Troutswallow

I feel bad for the trout.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

Reading Mein Kampf was... well, it was like reading any other long-winded and rambling manifesto.

I read it years ago, and the "writing style" struck me as someone talking to someone else, and that makes sense considering it's a dictation and Hitler didn't actually write it.

 

[xivnuhranx]

at whatever mom and pops independent bookstores there are, regardless if they are a slowly dying breed.

A lot (if not most) independent book stores are now smut dens. Every single local independent bookstore I have visited is 85% smut books like romantasy and romances with cartoon character covers. 10% is general fantasy/sci-fi that is mainstream like Brandon Sanderson, and 5% is all other genres like literary fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction. They were not always like this, but the kinds of women into these books will throw money at their next smut fix and it is highly profitable. BookTok smut is the only reason these bookstores are able to survive.

They have book clubs where women discuss the smut of the month they're all reading together, they sell trinkets joking about how funny it is you're reading smut, and prints from local artists of their favorite pairings in their smut books. The people (always women) working there are smut addicts themselves.

I've found that used book stores, independent or chain stores, are your best bet. Not thrift stores because they're still selling Windows 95 manuals, but places that only sell used books and other related media. You can find a lot of old, interesting books there.

"It's been years since I last went to a bookstore, I think I'll go check one out. I wonder why I stopped going"
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Someone recommended this to me as the best book she's ever read. Looking at my ePub copy, I stopped at page 43. It is one of the most retarded things I have ever read. It is full of stupid MCU-style quips and sarcasm and because the author could not be arsed to give a decent description of the setting, I imagine it's all taking place in a floating Hot Topic in space.

 

[Edgelord Vampire]

I've found that used book stores, independent or chain stores, are your best bet. Not thrift stores because they're still selling Windows 95 manuals, but places that only sell used books and other related media. You can find a lot of old, interesting books there.

This kinda reminded me: what I find sad is that in my local area, the record store I frequent has way more variety in their tiny book section than most of those small bookstores. Being outclassed by a store mainly meant to sell music is fucking pathetic, it's depressing.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

because the author could not be arsed to give a decent description of the setting

We have fallen so low as a species that no one dares to make the author write basic narrative descriptions about the location the characters are in. The future's looking bleak.

 

[zeroapexpeak]

We have fallen so low as a species that no one dares to make the author write basic narrative descriptions about the location the characters are in. The future's looking bleak.

It makes sense though, you can't have logically inconsistent locations if you don't ever describe them.

 

[Mola Ram]

It makes sense though, you can't have logically inconsistent locations if you don't ever describe them.

Continuity is haaaaaaard.

 

[Blasterisk]

Someone recommended this to me as the best book she's ever read.

WHEN GIDEON WOKE UP later, Dominicus had made the room wet and orange with evening light. She was cramped from hunger. When she rolled over, she was assaulted with a series of increasingly aggressive notes.

*A note on notes: The notes that assault her are made of paper, laying on a table with ink on them. Not music or a smell.

Everyone’s attention was on the two shitty teens.

[chapter start] THEY LEFT THE LONELY twin to her bitter, alien grief.

“Is it—I mean—is it real?”
He looked at her. “It’s nearly ten thousand years old, if that’s what you mean.”
“Well, I’m not,” she said. “So … what the fuck, basically.”
“The ultimate question,” he agreed

“Yo,” said Gideon, her head absolutely still. “Step off.”
The sword did not step off.

Nobody asked what it was, which Gideon thought was fairly frigging dumb.

'EY FRYMAN! It's fairly friggin' dumb not to ask what it was, if you ask me. ...It don't matta. Nunna dis mattas.

 

[zeroapexpeak]

What an absolute waste of paper and ink.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

I've found that used book stores, independent or chain stores, are your best bet. Not thrift stores because they're still selling Windows 95 manuals, but places that only sell used books and other related media. You can find a lot of old, interesting books there.

This is what I do myself. I have found some great stuff doing this.

What an absolute waste of paper and ink.

BookTok has been an atrocious thing.

 

[Second Missing Primarch]

Half-Price Books is one of my go-tos for used bookstores. Their pricing model can be a bit shitty because they go by listings on Amazon, which is how $10 Warhammer paperbacks wind up in their rare book cabinets and priced at like $100, but they almost always have some real gems on the shelves. There are also some really great independent used bookstores round where I live. Fuck the big corps, fuck BookTok, and fuck the current trends. Buy used.

 

[Kosher Dill]

A lot (if not most) independent book stores are now smut dens

Forget bookstores, even the book sections in big-box stores are smut sections now. (Well, that and a Bible section for the non-smut-readers)

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Buy used.

Always. I'd say the vast majority of my physical media collection is used thanks to Half-Price, Good Will (randomly found a biography of JFK that was published before his death in a store), and other local businesses. Hell, there's a local thrift business owned by an old guy that has a shit-ton of books in boxes and shelves that I spent a while sifting through one day, ended up finding the first edition of The Shining for my husband (I'm pretty sure it is, it doesn't have an edition number printed and the dust cover's missing), and a copy of Sun-tzu. And all the books are a dollar each there. Oh, and on rare occasions, the library will give away books for free (I dunno how that's determined). Ended up taking home a translated-from-Italian book on angels and "The Late Shift" from that.

Random collections that get cleaned out just get dropped off in the weirdest places and it's kinda awesome when you find them. That shit is what BookTok should be about, not about spice meters and other smut.

 

[Booger1488]

"It's been years since I last went to a bookstore, I think I'll go check one out. I wonder why I stopped going"
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WTF, I just looked up the author and found this on her Wikipedia page:
In 2014, she married Matt Hosty, a classicist in the University of Oxford, whom she met in the Homestuck fandom. Muir, who is a lesbian, describes their relationship as platonic and refers to Hosty as her "moirail".
So she, a lesbian in our year of the lord 2016+10, married a dude. Not to mention she's a Homestuck fan. I suppose that explains why the book turned out so fucking retarded.