Anyone regret reading a book?

Not because it was dreadful but because it was disturbing, toying with reading If This Is a Man Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi.

brilou23

The Bible

Atlas Shrugged, which now functions as a doorstop.

brilou23

brilou23 wrote: »

The Bible

The bible is a very interesting book full of allegory and myth.

Day Lewin

"That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

ArchXStanton

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Atlas Shrugged, which now functions as a doorstop.

That bad? I was going to give it a read at some stage

Day Lewin

"Fifty shades of Grey" - illiterate, ignorant, and far, far too long.

judeboy101

1984

I realised then that people are c@nts when they are afraid.

alchemist33

American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

ArchXStanton

ArchXStanton wrote: »

That bad? I was going to give it a read at some stage

It collapses under the weight of its own contradictions. I laboured through 1,100 pages so you don't have to.

Pherekydes

mariaalice wrote: »

Not because it was dreadful but because it was disturbing, toying with reading If This Is a Man Survival in Auschwitz) is a memoir by Italian Jewish writer Primo Levi.

I read that. You should read it, disturbing or not.

TheValeyard

Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol.


Fcuk you Dan Brown...fcuk you.

PingTing comes for Fire

Day Lewin wrote: »

"That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

dougle don't press the button meme

An Erotic Life, by Dennis Reynolds.

Terrible.

Alun

Any book that requires you to read another book to explain what the first one was trying, obviously unsuccessfully, to say.

PingTing comes for Fire

alchemist33 wrote: »

American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

There is humor in it. And it will your improve your knowledge of 80's
pop music. And men's fashions.

meeeeh

Dante's Divine Comedy. Because the translation was excellent and therefore complete nightmare to decipher. On every page there were half a page of citations and explanations.

Only later I discovered a more basic translation that was 10 times easier to read.

Irreverent

Someone recommended The Shack to me before by William Paul Young. Offensively awful book.

BTW I thought That they may face the rising sun was a superb book. Different strokes I suppose...

Worn Out

Day Lewin wrote: »

"That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

Ditto.

JohnnyFlash

Tried Atlas Shrugged as well. Complete claptrap and borderline unreadable.

Communist Manifesto by Marx was complete scutter as well. Boring bastard.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

“Does God Love Michael’s Two Daddies?” by Sheila K. Butt.

Almost funny but sadly just homophobic.

lawred2

alchemist33 wrote: »

American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

That's a great book...

LirW

I read 1984 at the wrong time in my life, I wasn't in a good place then.
Now I just don't think it's a great book.

eviltwin

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I never want to see that book again.

Healter Skelter was disturbing too but a cracking read.

WinnyThePoo

PingTing comes for Fire wrote: »

alchemist33 wrote: »

American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

There is humor in it. And it will your improve your knowledge of 80's
pop music. And men's fashions.

The chapter when he tries to cook I found laugh out loud.

corner of hells

eviltwin wrote: »

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. I never want to see that book again.

Healter Skelter was disturbing too but a cracking read.

I read Helter Skelter too , pretty disturbing stuff.

"Peig" never again.

Eggs For Dinner

John Grisham's An Innocent Man. Like reading a shopping list. I know it is non-fiction but there wasn't any flow to it.

Church on Tuesday

Cormac McCarthy's Child of God a relentlessly grim disturbing read.

Lackey

A Mother’s Reckoning by Sue Klebold

(Mother of Dylan Klebold Columbine school shooter)

Don’t know what I was expecting but not stories of a regular kid who had spent hours the week of the shooting with his dad going through the measurements of the dorm rooms at the college he wanted to go to...working out where he’d have the most space because he was so tall.

It unsettled me.

beveragelady

"Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee. Poor, poor Jem. It felt like I had lost a real friend when I read that. I wish I could get it erased from my memory.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Just relentlessly grim.

Muckka

Anything by Deepak Chopra

WinnyThePoo

beveragelady wrote: »

"Go Set a Watchman" by Harper Lee. Poor, poor Jem. It felt like I had lost a real friend when I read that. I wish I could get it erased from my memory.

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Just relentlessly grim.

No chapters in the road aswell.

antodeco

Genuinely never read a book in my life. I've tried, but never succeeded. I prefer them moving books

branie2

No.

alchemist33

lawred2 wrote: »

That's a great book...

There was some good satire, but my overwhelming thought afterwards was just "why?" I was also hoping for a bit of a story but it was essentially a collection of loosely collected chapters. And I know this makes me sound like a philistine!

humberklog

I regretted reading Filth by Ervine Welsh. It left me with imagery I didn't.need in my life.

Yoghurt87

The Time Traveller’s Wife with its horrible miscarriage scenes

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer when I was 13. Anne Frank’s was more uplifting.

PingTing comes for Fire

antodeco wrote: »

I prefer them moving books

Pop Ups


I like them also.

But they insist on putting them in the children's section.

donegal_man

"Gallows Thief" by Bernard Cornwell. Not the book in its entirety just the beginning which contains a horrific description of a public hanging. Gave me nightmares for a week after.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Day Lewin wrote: »

"That they may face the rising sun" by John Mc Gahern. Don't read it, it's dreadful.

Haven't read it in years but I enjoyed it.

alchemist33 wrote: »

American Psycho. Sadistic as f*ck and not quite as clever as it thinks it is.

Yeah, I loved the film but couldn't finish the book.

endacl

mariaalice wrote: »

The bible is a very interesting book full of allegory and myth.

A lot of it is a very long list of ‘begats’. Much of the rest is contradiction.

The useful bit could have been a pamphlet.

Ipso

Muckka wrote: »

Anything by Deepak Chopra

Sound like someone need to get their Chakras aligned with their epigenetic quantum consciousness.

by_the_book

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I had read Gone Girl and Dark Places and liked them but this was just horrible.

Lurid descriptions of self mutilation and a creepy creepy mother-daughter relationship. Just ugh

Sardonicat

corner of hells wrote: »

"Peig" never again.

Noooooo! Please, don't mention that 'book'. Who da fug thought that tripe would be a good language teaching tool?

'Jude the Obscure' is the one book I truly regretted reading. That ending. ..

by_the_book

by_the_book wrote: »

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. I had read Gone Girl and Dark Places and liked them but this was just horrible.

Lurid descriptions of self mutilation and a creepy creepy mother-daughter relationship. Just ugh

I thought Gone girl was quite a nasty book a lot of projectionism going on by the author I would think.

Alf Veedersane

Something that makes me sound clever.

I regret reading it for a reason that makes me sound more clever.

The Pheasant2

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

Was initially absorbed by the premise and the setting. Over a thousand pages later and the whole thing was poorly written with predictable plot and paper thin characters.

May have to revise my rule of always seeing a book out to the end for tomes >1000 pages in the future.

Gravelly

I have to disagree with those who dismiss Atlas Shrugged - yes it's heavy going and contradictory, but worth it in the end in my opinion, and I think, like A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Leviathan, and The Theory of Justice (and abou 10 other books I could name), it's a book that helps you get a more rounded understanding of differing political philosophies.

As a father, I found The Road extremely depressing.

buried

Born in Blood by John J Robinson. Not because its a bad book, it's a fascinating read, but it sent me down a freemasonic conspiracy rabbithole I've been unable to shake now for years. Robinson makes the case the Freemason brotherhood is the legacy of the Knights Templar's who were exterminated at the stake by the then King of France and the Pope back in the 14th century. Claims the English peasant revolt of 1381 was organised by the Templar descendants who went underground, then set up Freemasonry guilds later and attracted revolutionaries such as Washington and Houston in America, Jaurez in Mexico, Garibaldi in Italy and Bolivar in South America. All of them generals hell bent on revolution. Read it or don't but if ya do could end up like me now stuck down an occult conspiracy rabbit hole with no light at either end of the hoor

Gravelly

The Pheasant2 wrote: »

Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet

Was initially absorbed by the premise and the setting. Over a thousand pages later and the whole thing was poorly written with predictable plot and paper thin characters.

May have to revise my rule of always seeing a book out to the end for tomes >1000 pages in the future.

I really liked Pillars of The Earth!

Arghus

Not really. There's been many I didn't really enjoy or others I didn't think were much good, but I can't honestly say I've regretted reading them.