Is there a book you wish you could un-read?

[Philidor]

By this, I mean a book so awful that, having read it, you wish you could somehow apply bleach selectively to your brain cells and remove all knowledge of it?

[Sid]

I'd heard of Finnegan's Wake but I'd never really thought of reading it until it was mentioned here.

Inspired, some might say cruelly, by workerbee and figuring myself of superior intellect and literacy I tracked down a copy.

...and now, with hubris shattered, I'm posting in this thread.

[Picklock]

Any dating trick guides, or some kind like "Step by step guide to get laid for dummies"

[workerbee]

I'm going to come out of the closet here.

Being young and impressionable, the works of Ayn Rand really messed up my head when I first read them and severely limited my ability to appreciate a broad range of literature and philosophy she didn't approve of. Once free, I never looked back and I've often wished I could unread her.

[AareOnaKakanfo]

Arms and the Man by Oscar Wilde.
It didn't agree with me.

[joew771]

I'm going to come out of the closet here.

Being young and impressionable, the works of Ayn Rand really messed up my head when I first read them and severely limited my ability to appreciate a broad range of literature and philosophy she didn't approve of.  Once free, I never looked back and I've often wished I could unread her.

Ayn Rand shouldn't limit your ability to do anything, because that is basically the point of her books, that you can't be held back, that your thoughts and your acheivements are your own. No one can tell you what you should do.

And just because someone's philiosophy disagrees with yours, isn't a rational reason to not read or unread that person. I've read plenty of books that I don't 'agree' with. It doesn't mean I shouldn't have read them. The fact that you are bringing her up now after all this time, means that she had a fairly profound affect on you, positive or negative.

And my answer to the OP is, the one book I wish I could have most un-read is... The Bible. JK. I actually don't have one, cuz of what I already said.

[AareOnaKakanfo]

Arms and the Man by Oscar Wilde.
It didn't agree with me.

Oops, I mean George Bernard Shaw not Oscar Wilde.

[RobertX]

Watership Down by Richard Adams

So boring, like rabbit food.

[joew771]

Watership Down by Richard Adams

So boring, like rabbit food.

I used to like you, but not anymore. How dare you say such a thing? Watership Down is amazing. If you were in front of me I would pinch you really hard and call you names.