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 :)

  • Dazzling-Ad4701@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The War Zone by Alexander Ive-blanked-his-last-name-in-self-defence. it was not a bad book, or badly written. I got the feeling his motives were genuine and imp he writes well .

    it just one that made me want to play my “yes, this kind of ugly is plausible, but I don’t want to look at it” card. I’m a pretty stoical reader and I don’t begrudge the space it takes up in my head, exactly. but I don’t need what it told me in there.