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by wink 1594 days ago
> 1) “How to win friends and influence people”

I found it kind of bad. Like, really bad. 50% 'oh my, this is common sense' and 50% 'so that's where the cliche of Americans thinking that we Germans are honest, direct and potentially abrasive come from.'

I mean, I don't want to discourage anyone from reading it, but I found it very lacking and when taken literally, a bit absurd.