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 :)

  • lsolar775@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is Outlander for me. I loved the whole book so much, until then graphic sexual torture and abuse. I was not expecting that and it really fucked me up. Wish I had never read it.

    • Anomalous_Pulsar@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      There is so much rape/torture in that series that I can’t help but wonder if Gabaldon is writing out her kinks?

      And some of the characters in the later ones: just no. Hard no. Rarely have I despised a character so deeply that we’re supposed to like.

      Ugh. I wish I could purge that whole series from my brain.

      • NinjasWithOnions@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I absolutely agree with everything you’ve said. I read them all although by the last book I was just skimming it to see what happened. The books all seem to have 3 things: meeting a famous historical person, a natural disaster, and at least one person is raped.

    • ObeseOrphan@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I haven’t read it but my not close, very christian, fundamentalist mom has been proclaiming them as her favorite books (besides scripture obviously) and when I had heard this for the first time I was really taken aback. You know, because of the sex and abuse. Idk man repressed christians are weird. Anyway, Outlander is on my list to not read.