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 :)

  • Alarming_Abroad_4862@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Any book by Stephen King. So disturbing. I read two in a class and then dropped the class because I couldn’t do any more.

    In Cold Blood. Just so senseless and disgusting.

    I love The Pillars of the Earth, and I’ve read the entire series. But when I tell people that, and that I love them, they always say something like I must be a “big reader” or “oh those were too much for me”. And it makes me regret telling them. It’s very simply written so I don’t quite understand what they mean honestly.