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 :)

  • lknic1@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold fry. What a beautiful book, I guessed what was coming but the imagery has stuck with me like I just read it. The way he talked about how he remembers cradling his son’s head as a baby hurts my heart to think of it, especially as I do the same with my babies and I can’t imagine never doing that again.