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 :)

    • Soggy_Cup1314@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Violence. That would be the best way to describe it without a spoiler but it’s about a boy who runs away from home and doesn’t just join a band of bad guys he joins a band of pure villains. Some of the most vile and evil characters I’ve seen in a book and some of the most violent set pieces I’ve read. You’ll have a few moments that will leave you feeling sick and grimy and when it’s all done you’ll walk away from it still thinking about it. Another person on here did make the point that if you have children The Road is more disturbing but if you’re looking for a good read either of them are incredible books.

    • Murrig88@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I hear the book was published during a time when the “wild west cowboys and Indians” genre was very popular in the U.S., and directly contradicted all the white washed romanticism portrayed in books and movies.