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 :)
the “sleeping beauty” trilogy by anne rice. i read it when 50 shades was really popular and a PARENT at the preschool where i was teaching SUGGESTED it to me as books with ‘acutally good sex’. the trilogy starts with sleeping beauty being raped awake.
just… nope.
jesus christ, that’s troubling
Not really. The old versions of the tale have Beauty being woken up by her children nursing. The rape has always been there.,
Holup. So you telling me that Prince Phillip raped her. TWICE? Shiiieeeeeeeettt. So this fairytale is about dodging the pains of childbirth?
It was twins so multiple births off one act. In that version the kids dislodge a poisoned fragment so she wakes up.
This is story that goes back to at least the 1300s in written form in France and Germany. There was a lot of variation. It is tale 410 in the folklore index and has at least 8 major variation points.
oops sorry I should’ve clarified, I more so meant that was what the parent considered “actually good sex” THAT is troubling lol
Dear god, the fact a preschool parent recommended those to you is more horrific than the books!
It’s a kink piece, and not even a particularly good one, which is really weird to suggest to a teacher at their kid’s preschool!
yes. very weird. they even loaned me their personal copies, so i felt like i HAD to read them.
I was at a church yard sale once and found all three. Ever since I’ve tried to imagine who would donate those to a church sale. Now I know… Must’ve been one of the preschool teachers… shudder
lol, one of my perverse amusements is how much more likely you are to find porn on the salvation army bookshelves, compared with secular thrift stores. it’s like when a friend told me “if you want to get randomly laid … church groups!”
When I was in college I used to be a nanny and I would work for this family who was super religious and had like 7-8 kids. One day, the youngest baby was sleeping in a crib in the parents’ room and I’d heard her crying so I went to get her and I just happened to notice a book on the dresser titled something like “Understanding Your Spouse’s Sex Addiction”
Definitely made sense where all those kids came from…
Perfect twist would be if the husband bought this.
some of the other teachers and i made our own little friend group and some of them were fairly innocent. others… not so much. i think i fell kind of in the middle, lol (at least until i read those stupid books)
Boy I was brain farting real hard and thought you said you were a preschooler and an adult suggested you read that, as a preschooler.
yipes
Haha same!
I was at a bookstore the other day looking for my next book in The Vampire Chronicles, and I asked the worker if they had more Anne Rice that wasn’t in the horror section and he said “no, but have you read the books she wrote under a pseudonym about Sleeping Beauty? They’re weird. REALLY weird.” - he looked horrified lol
anyway, I’m loving TVC but have zero interest in checking out her Sleeping Beauty venture…
Back during the days of limewire, I downloaded the audiobooks when I saw it had been labeled as being by her, and not using her Roquelaure pseudonym, and was like, “Oh! Anne Rice! I love The Vampire Chronicles!”
Holy moly was very late bloomer teenage me in for a fucking shock lol.
I’m currently reading the Mayfair Witches and so I am not even a little bit surprised by this. There’s lots of rape and incest and even a dash of necrophilia. I’ve given up on it twice, the first time thinking I will give it one more shot and the second time someone else telling me it has a really satisfying conclusion in Taltos so to keep reading. So I’m on my third attempt and if I put it down again I’m not picking it back up.
I’m working on the witching hour and fuck is there a lot to slog thru plus at least 2 why would you put that in there
Oh great im working on the witching hour and literally the description is rape on both sides like girl please find better descriptions!!
I fucking know this book! I was actually 14 when I read it, just going into exploring ‘romance’ novels and yep I came across it and it was available for free, so I thought Why not… It sounded like a fairy-tale retelling… Yeah I was traumatize, but one thing was that I couldn’t stop reading it. The things that are mentioned there are just horrific to another level, it made 50 shades into a mild game, I had never read anything like that before and hence it increased by tolerance to kinky disturbing contents. I absolutely hated it, but I can’t forget that book, never exploring such books again. Don’t read it… but go ahead if you want to