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 :)

  • Shemhazaih@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Probably Choke by Chuck Palahniuk because bits of it were just so disgusting. I enjoy Palahniuk’s work but my God it is scarring (I’m not sure I can ever read Guts again either).

    • discojing@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I was physically ill when reading guts. I wish I would have never read it, I think back on it often.