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 :)

  • Leontiev@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    The Brothers Karamazov. I really disliked every character in the book, a bunch of selfish entitled ugly people. I kept reading because I wanted to find out who did it. Still don’t know. What a waste of time.

    • betelcake@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I’m generally a big fan of plot points that are left open to the reader’s interpretation. That being said, I read this book when I was in high school - and don’t think I understood it fully, nor currently remember it well enough to say whether or not it achieved that ambiguity WELL.