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 :)
Came here to say American Psycho. I’d seen the film first and loved it so assumed the same about the book… I did not. I definitely read it at too young an age (I’d guess about 15/16?) but many years later I am still freaked out by the violence
At one point I had to jump to read the end, my anxiety level was too high, and I thought, knowing the end would give me a bit of ease. It were things like (iirc, it was over 20y ago) >!the drilling machine, the grabbing of blood vessels from inside the throat and the vivid description of the smell from the head(s?) he stored in his refrigerator.!< Idk if I would’ve the same reaction, if I would read it now.
It’s so long ago that I don’t remember an awful lot of it, but for me the scene that stands out was where he, putting it mildly, chomps down on a lady where no person should chomp. Also the rats. I do also wonder though, how would I feel now if I read it? But the general dread of having to go through that scene and all the others that lurk slightly out of sight in my memory… no, thank you
I was about that age too, and was on a small holiday with my family, reading this book in a small caravan, I felt gross lol