Anyone ever read "Mein Kampf", what's your evaluation?

I doubt you will get an answer on here, all too paranoid that you are the government trying to find out who is a potential 'threat'.

I don't think he actually wrote it.

The ghost writer theory sort of ruins it for me. I can't read it unless I believe 100 percent these are Hitler's words. If they are the words of some ghost writer, it's entirely useless and meaningless.

I thought it was really dense and boring. The only thing I remember was the part where he talked about being a poor young guy in a shitty apartment in Vienna, and how he would amuse himself feeding little crumbs of bread to a mouse that would come out to eat them. It just struck me as the kind of thing you would never associate with Hitler.

The rest of it was hard for me to understand, maybe I'm stupid but it just seemed too dense and theoretical.

It's a classic, not all that easy to read, but definitely worth it.

Machiavelli's, The Prince

Mou se tung's Red Book

One of the absolute worst translations of any work I've ever seen. Just horrendous. In many places, it's a literal word for word transcription into English, and if you know anything about the two languages, you know that flat out just don't work.

Fascinating read though, from a number of perspoecives if you can weed thru the nonsensical sentence structure, run-on sentences and seemingly 'backwards' composition, ALL of which are directly the translator's fault.

IMHO, it was intentionally translated as it was to make Hitler look like an uneducated dolt, which whatever else the man was, he was not.

We had to read it in school because it was required reading. It was required reading because our history teacher was a Nazi who came to US to work, retired, and got a job at small Southern school. In the summers he had a place in Conn, near where he worked after the war.

We also watched the film of the Nuremberg rally with expert commentary (he was there) and listened to Hitler's speeches with an analysis of the Fuhrer's rhetorical techniques.

Hitler is a clear, almost technical writer who only lapses into purple prose in spots. He lays out his arguments quite well, but you have to have accepted the basic premise before reading, otherwise the translation will not suck you into being a Nazi or anything, its not exactly The Yellow Book. His great work is supposed to be much more engaging in the original German.

(Can't blame me. Y'all brought the guy to the US and let him get a teaching certificate

He even had a little wiener dog. )

Mao wrote the Chow Mein Kampf.

It was tastier. But you are hungry again two hours later.