Which novel would you recommend as a starter for readers with more traditional/conservative sensibilities? (You know, the sort that through literary duty get half-way through something like W.S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch before deciding that the exercise is a soul-corrupting waste of time.) Crash seems to be the most famous, but its premise almost seems a caricature of the sort of Western literary decadence described so well by C. Milosz at the beginning of The Captive Mind.