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 :)

  • amyaurora@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Falling by Christopher Pike.

    The book itself was fine. The ending I didn’t like. It still haunts me. I just can’t read it since. Maybe because I share the name of one of the characters and two of my fears is being >!being left to die!< and the other is !>falling of a cliff like she does!kid is left to suffer in the hospital by the mom!< if I ever stumble over it again, I know I’m not reading it.

      • amyaurora@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think the comment with the link to it got caught in the filters.

        Anyways, Christopher Pike did a few books for adults. One was called Falling and it was a cop plus crazy woman psychological thiller type. He wrote it some time after Fall Into Darkness. One of the characters in Falling is named Amy.