For me, the most recent book regret is Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Predictable from the get-go, bland, boilerplate sci-fi ideas, too many of these way-too-convenient plot devices just to push the story forward. I frankly don’t get the hype, and I am a pretty big science fiction guy.
Another one is Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I read this in college and this whole book should have been a one-page essay. It was too repetitive, and the whole premise of “trust in your snap judgments and gut reactions” is way too simplistic and honestly stupid. Like all Gladwell books, it was anecdotal, superficial, and a waste of time.
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
I am only 20 percent of the way through but I am probably going to DNF. I am unsure if it was written initially in another language and then translated into English but I just cannot get into it. The writing is rather rudimentary; full of short sentences and choppy verbiage. I do not like DNFing books so I am going to try again after I finish another read. But it is hard.
That book was so intense and gets so incredibly dark