I read Universal Baseball Assoc just because I like baseball and play OOTP, which is basically a digital version of the game the protagonist created. It was alright.
I read the first one and realized it was just a mediocre story excessively bloated. I didn't hate it, but I'm not going to waste my time reading the others when I could read so many better novels for the same page count
I read the first few books expecting wed get into the good parts soon but then some guy told me those were the good parts and it goes downhill after that so I just quit lol. Shame htough I liked some of the concepts
Reading is a skill that you develop over time. I don't regret having read anything (except maybe wasting time reading/replying to posts on here but that's different).
I've read a few of them but I don't regret it. Reading is a personal exercise and it's not like you become tainted--unless you consider something like Randtards by they're stupid anyway.
The Recognitions was such a brutal slog. After that I came to the realization that I should drop books if they are doing nothing for me and are I’m not looking forward to reading them
The thought never crossed my mind as a kid. I feel sorry for people growing up with the internet, they think furries and all kinds of weird shit is real.
As someone who read them all a year or two ago, they start as kids risking their lives fighting aliens and end as a bunch of super traumatized child soldiers committing war crimes for the betterment of all, with a really creepy sequel hook that I know will never go anywhere.
This thread.
How can anyone have a reading regret. You'd have to be totally impressionable to everything you read and unable to have an idea in your mind without instantly accepting it.
Wasting time, and possibly money. Also, disappointment. Sometimes it's better to never know that the book you've been looking forward to reading is actually dogshit.
Reading is a form of entertainment. It's purpose is to pass time in most cases, rather than solely to educate. Wasting time is the point.
Money regret is real, but not significant. IQfy wouldn't make a thread about never forgetting the $6.66 lost for the matinee of National Treasure.
If it was your goal to read the bibbul, then time spent reading about israeli lineages wouldn't be wasted (in the mind of the cuck).
Besides, you can just read the four gospels. It only takes half a day (less than 8 hours) and that's the only relevant part of the bibbul anyway.
>sees this on multiple favorites lists >finally read it >literally have to drag myself through it, so fricking boring and dry >basic “adventure” story, simple writing (not always a bad thing but still), repeatedly have to get myself to keep going through it >main character has generic struggle >my soul ages about 80 years waiting for me to give a shit, my hair slowly falls out and my bones turn entirely to dust, from the lack of nourishment this book is giving to me
>feels like fricking ages because it’s so boring but it’s so fricking short >expect maybe the ending gets better >nope generic ending >”ok maybe this book was a fluke for me, let me see what others think about it” >comparing main character to Christlike figure, “it’s his seminal work!!”, “masterpiece!”, “my favorite book of all time” >permanently lose any faith in a god, if any morsel still remained in me after all my essence was sucked out of every individual cell of my body by the experience of reading this fricking book.
I’m sorry I’m being serious I really disliked this book. In the moment it was very trying (like not difficult but a slog to get through) but over time this has crystalized into a silent hate. I read it because I read “Hills Like White Elephants” and loved it.
Why would you regret reading kids books as a kid? That shit gets in your steps and helps you so much in teens/adulthood. I read all the frickin Darren Shan saga which is utter dogshit and I don't regret that. Even the CS Lewis books I unequivocally hate now got me to where I am.
TLDR: Saint Patrick never actually read the Bible, was illiterate, and went around killing people in Ireland because they enslaved him when he was like 15. When he confessed in order to become a Bishop his best friend renounced him and testified against him.
>And so on that day I refused to suck their breasts for fear of God, but rather hoped they would come to the faith of Jesus Christ, because they were pagans.
Have sailors always been homosexuals?
I found this in the school library, long, long ago. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that this was the first real novel I ever read. And I really liked it...then. I don't think I can go back and verify if this is still true.
I read the later reprint with Tanis, Flint, and a smoking hot Goldmoon on the cover. She is why I picked it up, I will not lie. I was 15, and it was the first fantasy series I'd discovered by myself after being raised on Lewis, Tolkien, and MacDonald.
I still like it. The Chronicles and Legends trilogies are still loads of fun, despite the dumb theology and quasi-stupid polytheism.
Laurana a best, Kitiara a wretched prostitute.
I read the later reprint with Tanis, Flint, and a smoking hot Goldmoon on the cover. She is why I picked it up, I will not lie. I was 15, and it was the first fantasy series I'd discovered by myself after being raised on Lewis, Tolkien, and MacDonald.
I still like it. The Chronicles and Legends trilogies are still loads of fun, despite the dumb theology and quasi-stupid polytheism.
Laurana a best, Kitiara a wretched prostitute.
I enjoyed this in middle school. I recently tried to read a bit as an adult, and was embarrassed and ashamed. I couldn't even read the entire first chapter. Now I'm too scared to reread any Drizzt books.
That stupid book about the pigs larping as communists
I want my four hours back
Nah bro, that book was pretty funny. How'd it take you so long anyway, it's like shorter than a first edition communist manifesto.
Manga. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because I learned to draw by drawing manga, and everything you draw from them on has "manga syndrome" after that. You can never make that go away, you can only hide or disguise it.
Nana. I've read Germinal before and quite liked it, but this one was just plain unenjoyable for me it read like a Tolstoy novel if you take away everything good about Tolstoy's writing. I got maybe halfway through and had to drop it.
I should have dropped it 10 pages in but one can easily finish it in an evening and I had a morbid need to see how bad it got. It collectively had perhaps one and a half paragraphs of passable prose and read more like catty millennial whining than any sort of horror novel that it attempted to peg itself as. Reading it was like scoring a child's test a 0 while acknowledging that they actually tried.
I went through a Neech/Guenon/Evola phase when I was 20 and all it ended up doing was blackpilling me and making me even more depressed and bitter than I was before. I still think there's a lot of truth to their writings, but I also don't really think it's mentally healthy to dwell on that stuff in the long run
Kind reminder that "blackpill" is just a red pill you cannot handle. I've been fine reading them, it's just hard to push yourself out of certain concepts that have been embedded in my brain since birth.
It feels great though. Very freeing.
I read some Robert coover and it was pretty lame, I think the guy has some cool ideas but it’s not worth reading his novels
There is a reason these types of postmo writers are niche…they just aren’t good
I read Universal Baseball Assoc just because I like baseball and play OOTP, which is basically a digital version of the game the protagonist created. It was alright.
The entire Wheel of Time series is a big regret for me. I only did it as a "bucket list" item because I started reading the books when I was a kid.
I read the first one and realized it was just a mediocre story excessively bloated. I didn't hate it, but I'm not going to waste my time reading the others when I could read so many better novels for the same page count
I read the first few books expecting wed get into the good parts soon but then some guy told me those were the good parts and it goes downhill after that so I just quit lol. Shame htough I liked some of the concepts
I don’t read.
Welcome to IQfy
Reading is a skill that you develop over time. I don't regret having read anything (except maybe wasting time reading/replying to posts on here but that's different).
>I don't regret having read anything
Really!? You've never read a piece of shit novel? I can't even think of how many books I regret reading.
I've read a few of them but I don't regret it. Reading is a personal exercise and it's not like you become tainted--unless you consider something like Randtards by they're stupid anyway.
'No Longer Human' by that buck-toothed mudskipper Osamu Dazai. Can't believe I fell for the meme.
I don't think or can't recall anything that I've regretted reading.
Not even the Bible.
I've never read the bible
keep it that way
The Recognitions was such a brutal slog. After that I came to the realization that I should drop books if they are doing nothing for me and are I’m not looking forward to reading them
Catch 22
How come?
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Emma
Frick you
i wonder how many children these books left with anthropomorphic fetishes
It just gave me a transformation fetish
The thought never crossed my mind as a kid. I feel sorry for people growing up with the internet, they think furries and all kinds of weird shit is real.
As someone who read them all a year or two ago, they start as kids risking their lives fighting aliens and end as a bunch of super traumatized child soldiers committing war crimes for the betterment of all, with a really creepy sequel hook that I know will never go anywhere.
Sounds like shit, no wonder HP became more popular
This thread.
How can anyone have a reading regret. You'd have to be totally impressionable to everything you read and unable to have an idea in your mind without instantly accepting it.
Wasting time, and possibly money. Also, disappointment. Sometimes it's better to never know that the book you've been looking forward to reading is actually dogshit.
Reading is a form of entertainment. It's purpose is to pass time in most cases, rather than solely to educate. Wasting time is the point.
Money regret is real, but not significant. IQfy wouldn't make a thread about never forgetting the $6.66 lost for the matinee of National Treasure.
Disappointment I can see, though.
Because you don’t have infinite time or energy to read
try read the bible and come back
If it was your goal to read the bibbul, then time spent reading about israeli lineages wouldn't be wasted (in the mind of the cuck).
Besides, you can just read the four gospels. It only takes half a day (less than 8 hours) and that's the only relevant part of the bibbul anyway.
>what is hindsight
Other than the how it ended why did you regret reading Animorphs?
>sees this on multiple favorites lists
>finally read it
>literally have to drag myself through it, so fricking boring and dry
>basic “adventure” story, simple writing (not always a bad thing but still), repeatedly have to get myself to keep going through it
>main character has generic struggle
>my soul ages about 80 years waiting for me to give a shit, my hair slowly falls out and my bones turn entirely to dust, from the lack of nourishment this book is giving to me
>feels like fricking ages because it’s so boring but it’s so fricking short
>expect maybe the ending gets better
>nope generic ending
>”ok maybe this book was a fluke for me, let me see what others think about it”
>comparing main character to Christlike figure, “it’s his seminal work!!”, “masterpiece!”, “my favorite book of all time”
>permanently lose any faith in a god, if any morsel still remained in me after all my essence was sucked out of every individual cell of my body by the experience of reading this fricking book.
I’m sorry I’m being serious I really disliked this book. In the moment it was very trying (like not difficult but a slog to get through) but over time this has crystalized into a silent hate. I read it because I read “Hills Like White Elephants” and loved it.
You never went finishing, you are below 16 and you probably don't have a father.
i'd say you're projecting but there's much sadder problems you clearly deal with daily
You're just finishing for praise here, friend.
Redditor
Holy filtered. Zoomers are so cringe.
Dracula
It was just boring and I didn’t get much value out of it for how long it took me to finish.
But how, it's so good
No people say that all the time about Dracula, and it’s true. It drags after the castle.
>it drags
Instant gratification is a shallow mistress.
Dracula just has no gratification.
Quincey’s death was completely unearned.
If you don't enjoy reading something in its entirety then why did you specify the end? These two statements contradict one another.
Did you try Frankenstein?
klara and the sun. promising beginning that went nowhere and was overall terribly dull
Why would you regret reading kids books as a kid? That shit gets in your steps and helps you so much in teens/adulthood. I read all the frickin Darren Shan saga which is utter dogshit and I don't regret that. Even the CS Lewis books I unequivocally hate now got me to where I am.
>got me to where I am
Everything in your life got you to where you are now, so, do you regret nothing you've ever done?
TLDR: Saint Patrick never actually read the Bible, was illiterate, and went around killing people in Ireland because they enslaved him when he was like 15. When he confessed in order to become a Bishop his best friend renounced him and testified against him.
>And so on that day I refused to suck their breasts for fear of God, but rather hoped they would come to the faith of Jesus Christ, because they were pagans.
Have sailors always been homosexuals?
Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
The Bible.
>Oh did I mention the enzyme bonded concrete?
Went through a phase reading Steven Pinker in my mid-teens and now that I look back, what a waste of fricking time.
Bad
I found this in the school library, long, long ago. I'm a bit ashamed to admit that this was the first real novel I ever read. And I really liked it...then. I don't think I can go back and verify if this is still true.
I read the later reprint with Tanis, Flint, and a smoking hot Goldmoon on the cover. She is why I picked it up, I will not lie. I was 15, and it was the first fantasy series I'd discovered by myself after being raised on Lewis, Tolkien, and MacDonald.
I still like it. The Chronicles and Legends trilogies are still loads of fun, despite the dumb theology and quasi-stupid polytheism.
Laurana a best, Kitiara a wretched prostitute.
I enjoyed this in middle school. I recently tried to read a bit as an adult, and was embarrassed and ashamed. I couldn't even read the entire first chapter. Now I'm too scared to reread any Drizzt books.
Nah bro, that book was pretty funny. How'd it take you so long anyway, it's like shorter than a first edition communist manifesto.
Manga. Not because I didn't enjoy it, but because I learned to draw by drawing manga, and everything you draw from them on has "manga syndrome" after that. You can never make that go away, you can only hide or disguise it.
Nana. I've read Germinal before and quite liked it, but this one was just plain unenjoyable for me it read like a Tolstoy novel if you take away everything good about Tolstoy's writing. I got maybe halfway through and had to drop it.
Really didn't do it for me.
Blood & Fire - George Reddit Reddit Martin.
It fricking suuuucks bros.
like 90% of the canon is an utter waste of time
Who're you talking to?
Nothing But Blackened Teeth.
I should have dropped it 10 pages in but one can easily finish it in an evening and I had a morbid need to see how bad it got. It collectively had perhaps one and a half paragraphs of passable prose and read more like catty millennial whining than any sort of horror novel that it attempted to peg itself as. Reading it was like scoring a child's test a 0 while acknowledging that they actually tried.
Fricking this. Call of the Crocodile has been the only “meme book” that wasn’t terribly boring.
Shut up
disney wars books. god i hate myself
That stupid book about the pigs larping as communists
I want my four hours back
War and Peace Unabridged. Almost 1600 pages. It's supposed to be one of the greatest books of all time. It isn't.
You're wrong
of human bondage
read 2/3rds, couldn't deal with the guy endlessly cucking himself
i regret ever reading anything from this cursed website
>that south aussie girl's boyfriend posts on IQfy
Called it. Post your non-PC books for me, since your gf wouldn't show me.
I went through a Neech/Guenon/Evola phase when I was 20 and all it ended up doing was blackpilling me and making me even more depressed and bitter than I was before. I still think there's a lot of truth to their writings, but I also don't really think it's mentally healthy to dwell on that stuff in the long run
Kind reminder that "blackpill" is just a red pill you cannot handle. I've been fine reading them, it's just hard to push yourself out of certain concepts that have been embedded in my brain since birth.
It feels great though. Very freeing.