Spent $60 on a censored book and it completely changed my view

I bought a copy of 'The Satanic Verses' online for about sixty bucks after hearing it was banned in a bunch of places. I just wanted to see what the fuss was about. Reading it, I realized the actual story was way more complex than the headlines made it seem. It made me think about who gets to decide what we can read and why. Has anyone else read a banned book that surprised them?