What book have you read that wasn’t subjectively “bad” but you regrets reading all the same?

For me, Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter. The book was engaging and it kept me on my toes, but I just with I hadn’t “poisoned my head” with all the graphic gore that was in there. I years later i still think about this and how I really wish I had never read it.

Question inspired by a comment /u/PrincessOfWales made in another thread :)

  • YakSlothLemon@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I really like this question! Natasha Pulley, The Half Life of Valery K. Well written, well plotted (although it gets a little fantastic at the end), so well researched, but… it has one of the most horrific gang rape/murder scenes ever, because of what it leaves to your imagination instead of what it says, it was so upsetting b/c it was pages of lead up and you knew what was coming, just so hard to read. And then what happens to some of the people with the radiation… I’ve read a lot about Chernobyl, but this novel… Anyway, I’m really sorry I read it. It lives rent-free in my head and I wish it didn’t.

    I always feel like it was because my friend say “it’s just a book, it’s just fiction, they’re not real people,” but honestly if I felt that way I probably wouldn’t read so many novels!