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 :)

  • sophywould@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Circle, Dave Eggers. Not that bad from a literary perspective necessarily, but half way through I just became disinterested in the theme and the world. Not because it was intrinsically bad world building or anything, I just wasn’t feeling the tech vibe anymore, if that makes any sense. Only finished it out of a sense of obligation at that point, and ultimately wished I had spent the time on something else.