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 :)

  • thejestercrown@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Everyone always talks about how violent it is.

    Haunted is gruesome/violent in a way you can’t forget. I literally had to put the book down before I could finish it. I can’t forget Blood Meridian either, but it’s not the same. What got me was everything else.

    Regardless The Road is better. I literally felt guilty for having food while reading it.