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 :)

  • oh_please_god_noBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    One of my all time favorite books and I’m truly blown away by how many people missed the point completely.

    And I say that as someone who doesn’t particularly like Bret Easton Ellis: every now and then he writes something brilliant like American Psycho but he also wrote Rules of Attraction which was such a chore to get through.

    To me the movie did not accurately capture the theme nearly as well as the book. Christian Bale was amazing in it but the movie stripped a bit too much out of what made the book really work.