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 :)

  • chatnoir99@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Giver. it was in my fifth grade class (I was 11), and I was the kid who would read chapters ahead. when I got to the part where the smaller twin was euthanized before the rest of my class did, I spent the rest of the class period sobbing in the bathroom. it affected me pretty severely due to having an infant brother at the time, along with little prior exposure to the themes as I was raised in a pretty sheltered environment. I really wish I never read ahead in that book - or read it at all.