I like morally grey stories because they give me a lot to thing about, and Bad to the Bone is one of those. It reminds me why I have my morals and why they’re important.
There are many stories with questionable morals, this semester alone I’ve read quite a few of them. There’s La familia de Pascual Duarte, in which the main character kills all of his family and blames them for that; The Nose by Nikolai Gogol, that seems to say that no matter what you do things will work out fine for you; The Bear by Chekhov, that needs to be read in a comedic tone, otherwise people will just find it very weird… I could go on. But I think one of the most popular examples of this kind of stories can be Lolita or A Clockwork Orange, and in movies we can find The Professional or Fight Club.
All of these are awesome stories, but one has to be careful with how they’re read, and you cannot swallow them whole, they require you to think a lot about them.