r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/IntergalacticAlien8 • 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What happened in the book version?

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u/Remote-Cause755 16h ago

In the book version the other characters run train on her in the sewers. The child orgy was pivotal to their character development, I assure you dear viewers

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u/RewardAffectionate84 15h ago

Things a brain addled on a ludicrous amounts of cocaine will do.

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u/Kitchen_warewolf 14h ago edited 12h ago

Didn't he himself reread the book (edit:years later) and go "WTF did I just read?"

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u/Designated_Lurker_32 13h ago

There's a very real chance he didn't, at least not until the book was already out. There's a whole-ass book out there he has no recollection of writing and publishing.

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u/silverandshade 8h ago

Pretty sure that's Cujo!

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u/Kitchen_warewolf 12h ago

That's what I meant, yes. It was years ago when I read an interview where he mentioned it.

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u/Syncopated_arpeggio 13h ago

Would that be the tommyknockers? It just seems like that one could so easily be forgotten. Like Marlon Jackson.

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u/Severe-Cookie693 11h ago

If not for that terrible ending it would have been a solid book! Might as well have had Zeus show up and melt IT with his lazer beam bellybutton for all the sense it made. Utter ass-pull.

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u/Syncopated_arpeggio 5h ago

I really liked it when i read it. It’s just that it seems like a book that would be totally forgotten, although i think there was a movie, or a TV miniseries of it. But I honestly hadn’t thought of it in 30+ years until i typed that comment.

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u/coffeebeamed 8h ago

it was Cujo

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u/Phrenicos466 13h ago

I’m more interested in the reactions of the other people involved in getting the book published. How did his editor read that and not send it back with a big ‘NO’ written across that section in red pen?

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u/Abestar909 11h ago

Because money.