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 :)

  • kingofthebunch@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    German book, but {Der Schüler Gerber by Friedrich Torberg}

    We read it in school and it includes a plot point that pretty closely mirrors the way one of our year mates had died the previous year. A good time was had by exactly no-one.