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.
can’t remember the title, but this one book about some girl named Darcy whose best friend enters an affair with her (Darcy’s) fiancé. I was 14 when I read it. Darcy is basically your typical mean bitch friend who keeps you, the loser crony, around for the sole purpose of feeding into her superiority complex. anyway, the protagonist (D’s best friend) “accidentally” sleeps with D’s fiancé and after that it’s just a childish churn of cheating, sex, and friends being painfully plastic to each other. eventually protagonist and fiancé decide that they are truly in love and fiancé wants to call off the wedding but hesitates due to guilt; protagonist also falters because she feels even though D is a bitch she doesn’t think D deserves to be slighted like that. in the end though D makes the decision for them by confessing to protagonist that she’s been sleeping with protagonist’s official bf and is pregnant with his child. during D’s confession fiancé happens to be in the same room, hidden and eavesdropping, so he jumps out and then comes an absolute shitstorm where they all yell and point fingers at each other. basically it’s just a horrendous story of a bunch of dumb adults cheating on one another.