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If you could, which film would you un-watch or which book would you un-read?
Submitted by Kate.

Get me!  Answering my own question!

Anyway, if I had one chance to remove one film from my mind, I'm not going to waste it on something which was merely unremitting tedium (ie Vanilla Sky, Magnolia (most things with Tom Cruise, come to think of it) or Meet Joe Black), rather I would choose something which has had a negative effect on me.  When I was in Australia, my friend insisted I watch a film with her - it was an amazing film and everyone should watch it.  I was then forced to sit through what felt lilke months of the torture that is Requiem for a Dream.  I spent the rest of the night quaking in my bed and to this day have been unable to watch anything featuring any of the stars because I can't even bear to be reminded of it.  Hence, no more Labrynth, previously one of my favourite films, and no going to see 30 Seconds to Mars, even though I'm reliably informed they're an ace band.

Some years later, I was lent a book by the author who wrote the original book on which the film was based (I forget his name - please don't remind me) and I got about fifty or so pages in of ugly violence and misery when it occured to me I didn't have to go on but if I could have those memories removed and replaced with images of kittens or a badger in a teacup, that'd be good as well.

There was one book which I have successfully managed to blot out from my mind - it was something I found in a youth hostel, somewhere in South America and being bed-ridden with a hangover, I ended up reading it in about a day.  It was along the lines of Jackie Collins but my most enduring memory is that previous readers had added their short reviews at the back of it.  All I can really remember about the incident is writing in the back 'This book is preposterous!  Do NOT read it'.