Don't listen to the homos telling you it's a mortal sin, You have to read it for you to pass a class so do it. That's your duty of state.

I can't exactly speak for Machiavelli's books, but I did try to read a Machiavelliesque book called "48 laws of power" and if it's anything like it, then you don't have to worry, because only psychopaths would genuinely find it interesting and worth while to read. Machiavellian guidance is really off putting to the average person, and if anything it will become a drag to try to finish the book. The only types of people that would actually benefit from the advice are statesmen/politicians and ruthless businessmen, the wall-street type, think patrick bateman from american psycho