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.
Pet Sematary by Stephen King and Push by Sapphire have both haunted me since reading them. One of King’s short stories has as well: Survivor Type.
Omg the survivor story still occasionally comes back to tingle my spine out of nowhere. That and the one about the bloke who dies but somehow is conscious for the autopsy (I think he died playing golf? I forgot the name of it).
Yes! It’s called “autopsy room 9” or something very similar