"But I guess if a book is written by an American, it is beneath your keen European intellect? LOL. "

Victim consciousness already?
I read American books, I am just not into those kind of bestsellers.
You do have a point though about my European intellect. ; )
As for the rest (the utmost importance of everyone else reading the same book you happen to like), you are starting to sound like Bob.
And if you really got that from the Nazi playbook, as you believe, how come you still have not learned your lesson?; )

"Life is too short to waste your time and support the publishers of all the books of this kind of genre.."

-- Canela now proclaims the book should not have even been published, yet she's never read the book, hasn't read a review of it, and apparently has never even heard of the author.

"Unless you wanna use it as a replacement for getting an education in critical thinking."

---Susan Faludi has a far superior eduction to yours and is a respected, if sometimes controversial, scholar and writer. You, by contrast, are a strange little German hippy druggie girl expat who has consisently demonstrated a complete lack of critcal thinking here on tribe.net.

This desire to censor, Canela, is a consistent theme of yours.

You wanted a new moderator because you erroneously thought a new moderator would "shut up" your opponents.

You disagree with Susan Faludi, so you urge that her book should not have been published.

How do you reconcile your deep longing for censorship with your professed love of books?

It's a German thing, isn't it? LOL!

Canela,
Why don't you just write us a list of books that YOU think are acceptable to read, and a list of what we SHOULD think, who we SHOULD and SHOULDN'T listen to and get it out of your system already! Give people a choice to AGREE with your perspective instead of dictating and trying to insult/shame people into your point of view. I can't even imagine you speaking to actually living breathing human beings in real life like you do here. It's a headscratcher that you would deign to spend time denouncing a book that is too far beneath you to even read.
*Just my personal opinion here, but reading a book about human rights might be just what the doctor ordered.

Devils Advocate: Damn man! You make so many really good points, but Nazi's and Germans are not the same. As I understand it buying into idealogical Nationalism is how the NAZI's manipulated the support of the German people. VERY much like how Nationalism swept through America quite recently in the guise of "Patriotism". If there was name for Bush's regime like "Nazi" I would be outraged to have people lump me and my children and my childrens children into "Bush-ism" just because we are Americans, and would experience it as bigotry. I do understand what you were saying to Canela (believe me I am having the same issues), and I know you were refering to the Nazi mindset and not the German peoples. But how you said it was just as offensive to German peoples as Canela's America comment- and it's not their fault that Canela happens to live there either.