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 :)

  • TheMedicOwl@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I had a similar reaction to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. I was nine when I read it, the same age as Maya Angelou when she was raped, and reading such a graphic account told in the first person by a girl my own age really scarred me.