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What's your biggest reading regret and why?
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Jul 18, 2025 09:41PM
Still waiting for my “why did I read this?” moment… till now, all books have behaved well.
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Reading the Cursebreakers Series by Brigid Kemmerer, this was horrible at every chapter, with character assassinations and stupidity.
The Catcher in the Rye is the one... I felt like I was reading a racist boomer's diary from their youth. I think it is a very overhyped classic.
My biggest reading regret is allowing the books I read at school when I was younger to slow the pace of my love for reading. When I was young the books at school weren't exciting and I was so often bored. I have always loved reading but they just didn't help to feed my hunger for words. As I got older and read other books I began to find authors and genres that made my mind flourish and feed my literary hunger. I often think that if books were more interesting I would have read far increasingly more in my childhood and would have enjoyed it far better. Nevertheless, I have still turned out a bookworm and now read all sorts of amazing books.
Say you swear by Meagan Brandy. it just wasn't worth it it was boring, it was hard to keep up as there were too many characters and only last 20 % of the book had an actual plot.
Watching the movie before reading the book
Katrina wrote: "Watching the movie before reading the book"OH THAT IS AN IMPORTANT ONE!!
Katrina wrote: "Watching the movie before reading the book"I agree
This is so basic but honestly the 50 Shades books. Everyone was talking about them, some people I never saw reading were reading it and telling me how good it was and online I kept seeing how bad it was so I thought to read it myself and make my own opinion. Spent the entire first book waiting for it to get either good or 'hot'. Frustrated early in book 2 because they got back together right away and didn't even draw it out for drama and then NOTHING HAPPENS for most of the book other than that stalker girl who Christian doms into putting down her gun in one of the weirdest scenes I've ever read and again, nothing happened. The whole third book was just them fighting and him shutting her up with sex and then she gets a promotion for no reason and NOTHING HAPPENS. Nothing happens this entire series, there are no consequences to anything any of the main characters do, drama gets resolved quickly and without issue, the villains are all idiots and defeated super quickly, the writing is bad and the sex is boring and repetitive. Waste of my time from beginning to end, next time half the internet says a series is terrible I'm going to take them at their word and skip it.
can't read faster and can't seem to dnf u inspired books
I read series waaaay too fast and then burn myself out with them. I got really into Brandon Sanderson's books in January, and I read the entire Mistborn series (phase 1 and 2) in a few weeks, and then moved onto the Stormlight Archive series. I was burned out by book 3, forced myself through book 4, and now can't stand to even look at book 5. I should pace myself and maybe read a different book between each one in a series.
no specific books spring to mind. But I regret not learning to DNF sooner. Pushing myself to read and finish books that didn't bring me enjoyment put me in so many slumps where reading just became a task instead of something I did for fun. Now, if after 50 pages a book isn't resonating with me, I put it down and move on
Wish I could Read Faster! Have a Never Ending TBR List and then Find More Books to Read. Never Consider how I am going to Possibly Read them all. Have started loving Audios and am always listening to one of those, too. Books are The Best 💕
reading booktok hyped books and not caring to explore Indian literature
Not reading more of the classics. I keep telling myself that I will get to them eventually. It's been almost thirty years now.
Karen wrote: "This is so basic but honestly the 50 Shades books. Everyone was talking about them, some people I never saw reading were reading it and telling me how good it was and online I kept seeing how bad i..."It was SOOOOO BAAAAAD! I felt angry reading it and it's one of the only books I've ever DNF. From one page alone:
"Hi," he says, and his face lights up with his radiant smile. I take a moment to admire the pretty. Oh my, he's hot in leather.
The pretty what?!?! And:
"Oh, I like your ready wit, Anastasia."
No one talks like that. It was unbearable. If people were banging on about it purely for the sex scenes they need to read more as there are plenty of hotter sex scenes in literature without wading through the grammar word soup of 50 Shades.
My biggest reading regret is falling for the hype. I was really looking forward to Conversations with Friends on my holiday and I bloody hated it with the pretentious characters who feigned poverty.
The Cows by Dawn O'Porter was not as good as people made it out to be. Most recently Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey enraged me with its wingy nothingness because I'd fallen for the hype, the quotes and comments that it was the best book someone had read all year. If it had been the only book I read that year it still wouldn't have been the best.
Anyway, I regret listening to the wrong people.
Megan wrote: "No one talks like that. It was unbearable. If people were banging on about it purely for the sex scenes they need to read more as there are plenty of hotter sex scenes in literature without wading through the grammar word soup of 50 Shades."I could not agree more. I love romance books, I've loved plenty of bad boys with hearts of gold or demonic impulses but 50 Shades was just terrible. Also, what ready wit?! Ana is one of the dumbest, most spineless heroines I've ever read. Buttercup from the Princess Bride looks smart in comparison to her and at least that author made her canonically an idiot. But she's apparently so dazzlingly smart that it shines out of her crotch because the gyno that talks to her for 5 minutes about birth control comes out of the room and tells Christian 'That's a bright young woman.' HOW? What impressed you so much about a conversation about birth control with a woman who knew nothing about it? She spends half the series biting her lip and the other half having catty mental judgements about every other woman she sees, including her 'best friend'.
I am still mad at myself for reading those stupid books. I am never taking a non-reader's book recommendation ever again.
I didn't find Verity nearly as good as people say. I don't regret it though. The Black Farm was pretty good to start with but then it hurried up and was crap. The 50 shades series was absolutely terrible.
Sex scene word salad. For my reason as to why 50 shades was terrible.
I remember reading a book by an author I love, finishing and genuinely thinking that he must have mistakenly uploaded a half baked first draft, because it was so poorly written.Turned out that was by a writer with the same name.
I didn’t even know that was legal!
Judith Speed wrote: "I remember reading a book by an author I love, finishing and genuinely thinking that he must have mistakenly uploaded a half baked first draft, because it was so poorly written.Turned out that wa..."
Oh how odd! What writer was that?
Karen wrote: "This is so basic but honestly the 50 Shades books. Everyone was talking about them, some people I never saw reading were reading it and telling me how good it was and online I kept seeing how bad i..."I have to agree with every word you've written here. I came away from the first book (giving it one star) feeling like I was the little boy who said the Emperor had no clothes! Have you noticed that the author has vanished into obscurity?
Elite wrote: "I have to agree with every word you've written here. I came away from the first book (giving it one star) feeling like I was the little boy who said the Emperor had no clothes! Have you noticed that the author has vanished into obscurity?."Oh yes. I saw Dominic Noble do a review for her The Mister books and it looks like it didn't reach nearly the heights of 50 Shades without the rose colored glasses of Twilight fanfiction fans hiding the bad writing. What's wild is she unwittingly wrote one of the most monstrous, toxic, abusive relationships in fiction and if she'd categorized it as a psychological horror thriller like Killing Stalking and leaned into it instead of a straight up romance she might actually have a real future as a writer scaring the shit of people.
Alexander Hamilton, because I thought it was just like the musical it was based on. Boy was I wrong. I tried rereading it two years later but only made it 4 chapters in before giving up again. Bleh...
Say you swear the most boring book ever everyone kept telling me just push through it gets better. Guess what? It didn't.. and also acomaf the most overrated book ever. I never hated a book more in my life.
I know many people will probably disagree but I'd say Flawless by Elsie Silver. I think the translation played a big part and I read it in French instead of English
Karen wrote: "Judith Speed wrote: "I remember reading a book by an author I love, finishing and genuinely thinking that he must have mistakenly uploaded a half baked first draft, because it was so poorly written..."The writer (or writers) are Matt Haig. The book was called “My Heart is not a Game.”
Judith Speed wrote: "Karen wrote: "Judith Speed wrote: "I remember reading a book by an author I love, finishing and genuinely thinking that he must have mistakenly uploaded a half baked first draft, because it was so ..."Thanks! I'll take a look through the good one's books!
Alif wrote: "The Catcher in the Rye is the one... I felt like I was reading a racist boomer's diary from their youth. So, you're thinking a 5 year old wrote it?
Agree though...utter garbage...1 Star...and that was out of the kindness of my heart.
Regrets?None. I've read some amazing classic novels over the last few years...and a few stinkers...but...l'm fine with "taking the good, with the bad". As long as the ratio stays 99%-1%.
Not utilizing the public library sooner!!
Atlas six man oh man how they fooled me to believe this was a good book.
The House of Cotton. I will never get those hours I spent reading it back. I could have read something much better. The author apparently thought it was necessary to give you every graphic detail you never needed.
honestly picking up mangas soo late bcs i didnt considered them "real literature" 💀
Karen wrote: "This is so basic but honestly the 50 Shades books. Everyone was talking about them, some people I never saw reading were reading it and telling me how good it was and online I kept seeing how bad i..."I read the first one and laughed so hard at the ridiculousness of it I didn't read the rest.
Hunger Games book 4th Bc their ending was sad and the whole book wasn't good
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