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>all these Reddit-tier responses
It's not groundbreaking or the best book ever, but it's a pretty interesting and entertaining read, take it from a National Socialist's mouth.

If you know WLP's style of speaking and some of his mannerisms, you'll be able to spot them in some parts of the book. At some points, not that many though, the text comes accross as a little preachy, personally I didn't mind it because I went in expecting as much.

Because the book is written in such a way as to make it resemble a diary, some events or plot points might seem odd, or sudden, or "too easily achieved". I think that might be because the author stuck to the diary entry format in a very consistent way, sometimes at the expense of other parts of the work. So, for example, you might find yourself reading an entry that basically states "and today we convinced this person of this extremely foreign idea and now he's working with us" instead of the entry "breaking character" of the diary and describing the process in more detail.

The Turner Diaries is one of WLP's two most widely known works, the other one being Hunter, which I also consider to be much better. Both Hunter and TTD share the same trait of showing the author's logical thought behind some of the characters' actions. As in, at times some descriptions or solutions or events might strike you as pretty clever or inventive or actually plausible which I think makes for a very interesting read, since you'll have the feeling of reading about something that theoretically could be done. Let's not forget that WLP was an engineer and a very intelligent person, and he approached his writing with that widely known but rarely implemented well mindset of actually trying to think about how a story problem should be solved in the most plausible way. That is one of the reasons why this book, and WLP, were blamed for some of the later real life terrorist attacks and accused of inspiring them, it's because WLP's "mind wargames" resulted in fairly realistic solutions.

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