My ears are bleeding, but at least the last thing I got to hear in my lifetime was an incredibly loud and distorted version of Green Hill Zone. Lucky me.
My friends ma is a very nice cultured intellectual type and she said american psycho is the only book she ever BURNED!. I understand how she feels. I wish I could un-read that one
I only read it recently because I assumed it was the literary counterpart to the late 80s art world's obsession with shock for the sake of shock, but I was surprised to find that it's actually a really incisive satire. No wonder my girlfriend in college was so into it.