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 :)

  • Griffen_07@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Not really. The old versions of the tale have Beauty being woken up by her children nursing. The rape has always been there.,

    • xae-rin@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      oops sorry I should’ve clarified, I more so meant that was what the parent considered “actually good sex” THAT is troubling lol

    • MadCarcinus@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Holup. So you telling me that Prince Phillip raped her. TWICE? Shiiieeeeeeeettt. So this fairytale is about dodging the pains of childbirth?

      • Griffen_07@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It was twins so multiple births off one act. In that version the kids dislodge a poisoned fragment so she wakes up.

        This is story that goes back to at least the 1300s in written form in France and Germany. There was a lot of variation. It is tale 410 in the folklore index and has at least 8 major variation points.