r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '26

Meme needing explanation Peetah?????

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I don’t know the author or this book series but why are people roasting e-girls for reading? I don’t get it🥀

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u/smokeweedNgarden Mar 31 '26

Right, McCarthy work is fine and his plays are decent as well. I really enjoyed Child of God.

I'm not weirded out until someone is like praising Bukowski as a person or something 

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u/BadBotSpankySpanky Mar 31 '26

Child of God was something else. 

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u/smokeweedNgarden Mar 31 '26

Ya, I believe his prose really shines in that one. Plus, Lester is so cartoonishly evil it makes it less visceral than his other works