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.

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    1 year ago

    You’re straight lying if you predicted dark matter other than the identity of the attacker. I’m calling malarkey.

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    I’m about to put down Dark matter for the same reason. I’m still 100 pages in and haven’t been able to pick it up and continue lol.

    Think I’m gonna read killers of the flower moon instead

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    1 year ago

    Night of the Moonbow by Thomas Tryon. Great author, terrible beyond belief book.

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    1 year ago

    I regret nothing. When you dislike, you learn.

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    1 year ago

    Fools Die by Mario Puzo is one of the few books I genuinely regretted. Other times I hate the book but it’s fun to rant about them. But this book got on my last nerves.