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 :)

  • 4851205@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh my god yes I being up Pretty Girls every change I get because of exactly this reason. It was well-written but was the only book I’ve ever read to truly disgust me to the point of legitimate nausea. I wish I never read it and I wish there was more of a warning??? There was nothing indicating how graphic it was going to get and I’m still bitter about that. I won’t go near any of her other books again.