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 :)

  • Kuiken81@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The book was horrifying. I don’t regret reading it but damn, not going to reread it either.

    • Soggy_Cup1314@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      When you know what’s coming the second time around the book is infinitely better and you get the philosophical aspect more. The first time you focus on just the violence, the second time more the story and characters. Give it time, years even but I think you should definitely reread it. But yeah it’s real deal, not for the faint of heart.