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 :)

  • Sinovera@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Orphan Master’s Son.

    I don’t really regret it… But it opened my eyes to the cruelties that still exist in this world and sent me on a binge of reading about North Korea for a while. That whole journey made me feel so depressed that this type of society still exists in the world today. I was born in South Korea but emmigrated when I was 7, so I wasn’t really exposed to much information about NK; but it kinda made me feel ashamed about not knowing this existed so close to my mother country.