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 :)

  • gringottsteller@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I completely agree with you about Pretty Girls. I kept thinking surely the worst was over, because it couldn’t get any worse, but nope, it could and it did get worse. I wish I had quit when I got an idea of what I was in for.

    • SoggyAnalyst@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yes it just kept getting more depraved. It’s been years and sometimes the visual of the guy with the mask just lingers in my head and I HATE it

      • JimJamTomTam@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Me too. It’s been many years and I still get random flashes of this book. I wish I’d never read it

    • JimJamTomTam@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I used to read heaps of crime but Pretty Girls was my last. Once I put that down I decided that genre wasn’t for me.