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 :)

  • thehightyper@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I fucking know this book! I was actually 14 when I read it, just going into exploring ‘romance’ novels and yep I came across it and it was available for free, so I thought Why not… It sounded like a fairy-tale retelling… Yeah I was traumatize, but one thing was that I couldn’t stop reading it. The things that are mentioned there are just horrific to another level, it made 50 shades into a mild game, I had never read anything like that before and hence it increased by tolerance to kinky disturbing contents. I absolutely hated it, but I can’t forget that book, never exploring such books again. Don’t read it… but go ahead if you want to