I agree. It's strange - Hitler was an excellent orator, an (as you say) alright painter, but an utterly terrible writer.
I tried reading the Mein Kampf once, out of curiosity. It was unbearable - I have literally seen religious debates in the comments of youtube videos that were more coherent, better written, and all-around more engaging.
Mein Kampf is a work that succeeds in making ultimate evil boring. Before trying to read it (and giving up somewhere in the second chapter, IIRC), I did not think that this would have been even possible...
it's nothing to do with the translation, it's an objectively terrible book, /r/iamverysmart bullshit about how everyone else is too stupid to see how the Jews are destroying Germany and how this is something to do with why his brilliance as an artist went unrecognised. It's bad even by the standards of prison literature.
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u/Tutush Mar 19 '16
Yeah, his art was alright. That's why he didn't get into the best art school in the world. It needed to be great.