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 :)

  • littleautisticmess@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Secret History by Donna Tartt was an incredible story but the main characters mental state was so awful that it triggered a bit of a mental spiral for me. And when I was a teenager Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson triggered a huge ED/self harm relapse because the content was so graphic and realistic to my life.