r/MurderedByWords • u/Bitter-Gur-4613 • Dec 17 '24

#3 Murder of Week Is he just stupid?

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u/DayleD Dec 17 '24

I read Enders Game as a kid without knowing the author was a cultist and assumed he was attempting to be homoerotic with the shower fight scene.

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u/Juggs_gotcha Dec 17 '24

You got homoeroticism from that? Our brains do not work the same I guess. There was nothing sexual in that at all to me, it was all predator prey behavior, bullies trying to find someone at their weakest and most vulnerable to make the attack more brutal.

Shame the guy was off the deep end though it was one of my favorite books as a teen.

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u/elastic-craptastic Dec 17 '24

It's actually the book that started me reading. I had managed to go through life never having done a book report. I was 13 or 14 when my cousin gave me that book and that ignited my passion for reading.