But it was overshadowed by another case the same year. A boy in the high school class just below me was kidnapped outside the grocery store he was working at and held captive on a remote stretch where he was raped by rednecks. Real Deliverance style stuff.

Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy some Talking Heads and XTC in small doses - they do have some great songs here and there, just not enough and I don’t care to sit through an entire album by either. Because their general style just grates.

Merle didn’t do anything most rock stars haven’t done. Iceberg Slim was on an entirely different level. The very first scene is his first memory as a child of his babysitter using him as an oral sex toy. She picks up the baby and rubs his face against her pussy. Yikes. Later his uncle bashes his kitten’s head against the wall in front of his eyes. This book is rough