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 :)

  • Kaneshadow@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I really liked Atlas Shrugged in high school. I had no political concept of it whatsoever, I just thought it was about being proud of your abilities, and then when they go to Galt’s Gulch she describes how they created a new society from scratch which is kinda dope. I had no idea people would act like this fairy tale world- where every captain of industry was ready to lay their life down for their morality and everyone with a humanities degree was a whiny petulant parasite- had any analog to real life. After I realized that Republicans had started using it as an excuse to eat the poor, I took it off my shelf.

    • SophiaofPrussia@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      and it cockblocked me with an OKCupid date, I took it off my shelf

      I’m not surprised, it really is one of the few books that are a glaring red flag in the dating world.