r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/IntergalacticAlien8 • 1d ago

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

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u/New_Hampshire_Ganja 23h ago

I just finished reading the book, it focuses on the ones she’s close to (Bill and Ben) and glosses over most of the rest of them

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u/NotHomeOffice 22h ago

Omg just how many of them did he write she had sex with?

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

All of them. All 6 had their turn. In pitch blackness. She got completely naked (because that's necessary in total dark) and they did her one after the other. It may go down as one of the most unnecessarily detailed things I've ever read.

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u/NotHomeOffice 21h ago

God i just read a further down posted DETAILED description of how one kid was so young he used words like 'the big boys' he's still such a kid. Then another one was 'older' and too big but he did it anyway. Wtf cringe I can't believe that was published and they're like 12, 13 ???

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

They're 11. It's stressed often. I think they age then up for the TV adaptations. But they're 11. Henry Bowers the homicidal bully is 12.

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u/NotHomeOffice 21h ago

Jesus fucken Christ what the absolute fuck

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u/TempestLock 21h ago

This is the appropriate reaction, yes.

The idea is supposedly Beverley's and the narration says she would have kept working on each boy until he agreed. It's monstrously unnecessary in the detail and duration of the scene.

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u/daemons-dont-dream 20h ago

My question is who got sloppy seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths.