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No. I can't say that anything that was good put me off of it because of subject matter. I'll stop reading stuff I don't like, but that's usually about the quality of the storytelling. I tend to avoid things I don't think will appeal to me, given that my TBR list is already long enough.
I understand that American Psycho didn't appeal to everyone, but it is one of my favourite books. I think I've read it about four times now. It certainly does make me uncomfortable and it should. However, I don't know a better satire of the eighties. The movie is a travesty, though.
I was surprised to see someone say Heart of Darkness as well. I just finished it. It is a bit unrelenting, but it is fairly short. There's nothing particularly graphic in it, though it does expose the brutality of colonial exploitation.
While books aren't a problem, I will stop watching movies if they're too awful. Not just bad. If a movie seems exploitative and gratuitous, I don't feel like watching it. I don't like undue gore or sadism. One that really comes to mind is Charles Bronson's "The Evil That Men Do." The torture scenes seemed to be there for titillation rather than the purpose of the story.
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