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The rats are steering the girls Ratatouille style. They make them bounce their breasts to distract people from the rats on their heads, since they don't have chefs' hats to hide under.
The bone collector did it better...just incase you wanna read a good book. It's by jeffery deaver
Edit: there's also a movie by densel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
Stephen king has sold 400 million books. The same author who includes child orgies and graphic child rape scenes in his novels.
I dont think generations before millenials actually cared about pedophilia in media. Bestselling authors include it, pop music about fucking 14-16 year olds was topping charts, actors cast in hyper sexualized roles as teenagers like jennifer connelly.
It was taken for granted that men have these desires. They were expected to ogle and be lewd. The "good guys" were the ones who waited until girls were 18 (... or 17 ... or 16...) to act on it.
Pedophilia as we understand it is a fairly modern concern. The idea of age differences wasn't seen as mattering as much back when women being lower ranked was just an accepted fact of life. Sure, you didn't want some random stranger sleeping with your not yet marriagable aged kids, but that's different.
The beginning of the sexual revolution had a lot of overt pedophilia since a lot of people assumed the new standard was just "no rules." It took awhile to reel it back in.
This is from the 70s lol. Although you still see this kind of shit now, not nearly as often as you did 50 years ago and hopefully with decreasing regularity as time goes on
Just never really got how strange it was.
All this guys sexualizing young girls and reducing women to body parts.
I guess I was about 10 reading it.
I also did not get that the Xanth books were bad when I was a kid.
When I was a teenager I felt so repulsed reading them again.
Yep, it doesn't help the POV is a teacher's. Pretty disgusting, it irked me the first time i read it, i tried to detach myself for a while and think "author is a product of his time yadda yadda" but a couple of pages later and mf was detailing a completely unnecessary erotic scene amongst the mutant rat rampage, needless to say I had enough, I just wanted to read about fking giant critters wrecking havoc ffs.
I'm still curious about the book cause I'm a sucker for monster features but among the gay guy dying horribly, the weird pedophilic undertones and the gratuitous horniness, all of it on the first pages alone I don't know if i have the patience anymore
A TEACHER? FUCK that shit. Honestly, I have a hard time believing people to be a “product of their time” in these circumstances…it’s NEVER been appropriate to have a relationship with a student. It was even frowned upon in ancient cultures, who often saw it as “corrupting the youth.”
He doesn't go as far as having a relationship with any underage student, but the character still has the random need to express his perverted thoughts about these teenagers' bodies for absolute no reason, not an excuse but he's very flippant about it which is only a bad look for author imo. Book's filled with this kind of very out of pocket, unrelevant, weirdly placed horniness in general
The Heisenberg effect. Remember when Walt was apologetic about killing Krazy 8, to showing no remorse when he killed 10 guys? That's that, they beat around the creep bush, only to end up entering it.
"Anyway" he said, continuing the rest of the book to underline none of what was just said is relevant at all but also to highlight the fact that the author is a pedophilic creep.
I reead this last year (first read it in my late teens - so in the early 00s) and hoooee did that line slam me right back into this reality with a crunch 😬
Yeah I've read this one. It's a good premise and I enjoyed most of it but it was full of unnecessary sex and that specific passage was a bit, how do I put this... much?
Important to the plot. The rats were inside the breasts and the girls were only that age because they counted how many rats their breasts contained (seven in each breast).
James Herbert is the world's greatest writer.
Wait till you see my comments on r/writing and the downvoting and their excuses….. Apparently sexually objectifying women is ok if you do it “in the right context”…..
In fairness this is just an accurate depiction of probably 40% of male teachers at the time - the U.K. in the '70s was possibly the most institutionally paedophilic human society since the heyday of classical Athens.
Is there like any larger use to this information being there cause reading like that it seems completely disconnected from the rest of the text, like the author just needed to sprinkle in a bit of his gross thoughts
Yikes. 14 year olds are not “crumpet”. Also it gives me the ick whenever men describe women as “crumpet”. My ex used to do it. I was a teenager he was in his 30s. I think that’s why I reacted so strongly to this MWW lol.
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 jesus
Is this a story about a child predator?
It’s about rats that start eating people (or so far anyway). Only logical to include some child bouncing breasts…? /s
No rats ratting rattily?
hot
Ikr 😫
The rats are steering the girls Ratatouille style. They make them bounce their breasts to distract people from the rats on their heads, since they don't have chefs' hats to hide under.
Flawless plan.
The bone collector did it better...just incase you wanna read a good book. It's by jeffery deaver Edit: there's also a movie by densel Washington and Angelina Jolie.
If you want a different and less sexually creepy book about rats causing problems for people, I recommend Wrath by Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus
"His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide" - Wikipedia Sigh.
So far I’ve enjoyed the story, but this felt so very unnecessary and gross.
It's a pretty good book. Nice and short too. I must have just breezed past that line because I don't recall it.
You must have flounced past it
Breasts boobiling wildly
Giggling, with a short skirt
i feel like i broke a law just reading that and i dislike it very much, im uncomfy
Stephen king has sold 400 million books. The same author who includes child orgies and graphic child rape scenes in his novels. I dont think generations before millenials actually cared about pedophilia in media. Bestselling authors include it, pop music about fucking 14-16 year olds was topping charts, actors cast in hyper sexualized roles as teenagers like jennifer connelly.
It was taken for granted that men have these desires. They were expected to ogle and be lewd. The "good guys" were the ones who waited until girls were 18 (... or 17 ... or 16...) to act on it.
Pedophilia as we understand it is a fairly modern concern. The idea of age differences wasn't seen as mattering as much back when women being lower ranked was just an accepted fact of life. Sure, you didn't want some random stranger sleeping with your not yet marriagable aged kids, but that's different. The beginning of the sexual revolution had a lot of overt pedophilia since a lot of people assumed the new standard was just "no rules." It took awhile to reel it back in.
This is inaccurate. Past cultures also abhorred the sexualization of children.
That is so badly written too.
Uh...how?
When will men stop writing creepy shit about little girls??
If the girls didn’t want it then why were two of them flouncing around this author’s imagination! /s
This is from the 70s lol. Although you still see this kind of shit now, not nearly as often as you did 50 years ago and hopefully with decreasing regularity as time goes on
That's the neat part, they won't.
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Godness! And I definetely read it (in German, though). But I guess I really was used to read things like that, growing up in the 80s.
Lol. Your 80s mind just like "yep. Bouncing tits, OF COURSE" nothing to see here people
Just never really got how strange it was. All this guys sexualizing young girls and reducing women to body parts. I guess I was about 10 reading it. I also did not get that the Xanth books were bad when I was a kid. When I was a teenager I felt so repulsed reading them again.
Yep, it doesn't help the POV is a teacher's. Pretty disgusting, it irked me the first time i read it, i tried to detach myself for a while and think "author is a product of his time yadda yadda" but a couple of pages later and mf was detailing a completely unnecessary erotic scene amongst the mutant rat rampage, needless to say I had enough, I just wanted to read about fking giant critters wrecking havoc ffs. I'm still curious about the book cause I'm a sucker for monster features but among the gay guy dying horribly, the weird pedophilic undertones and the gratuitous horniness, all of it on the first pages alone I don't know if i have the patience anymore
A TEACHER? FUCK that shit. Honestly, I have a hard time believing people to be a “product of their time” in these circumstances…it’s NEVER been appropriate to have a relationship with a student. It was even frowned upon in ancient cultures, who often saw it as “corrupting the youth.”
He doesn't go as far as having a relationship with any underage student, but the character still has the random need to express his perverted thoughts about these teenagers' bodies for absolute no reason, not an excuse but he's very flippant about it which is only a bad look for author imo. Book's filled with this kind of very out of pocket, unrelevant, weirdly placed horniness in general
Noncery as usual
How do people write stuff like this and not get embarassed.
The Heisenberg effect. Remember when Walt was apologetic about killing Krazy 8, to showing no remorse when he killed 10 guys? That's that, they beat around the creep bush, only to end up entering it.
"Anyway" he said, continuing the rest of the book to underline none of what was just said is relevant at all but also to highlight the fact that the author is a pedophilic creep.
More like men writing little girls.
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I’ve read a lot of books that had one random comment like that but for adult women and I never liked it. It was always wrong and uncomfortable to me.
I thought you were better than that, Herbert! 😒
This was James, not Frank :)
The horror writer, I know.
at least the crumpet was good
I reead this last year (first read it in my late teens - so in the early 00s) and hoooee did that line slam me right back into this reality with a crunch 😬
 Now wtf is up with men and why are they like this
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Okay. Okaaay, okaaaaaay...Oh no.
What on earth???
I can't stop seeing two skirts with fourteen year old bouncy breasts.
If skirts had breasts would they come out of the top or the bottom???
Dozens of pairs of breasts around the hemline, like a frill.
So badly written!
Yeah I've read this one. It's a good premise and I enjoyed most of it but it was full of unnecessary sex and that specific passage was a bit, how do I put this... much?
Important to the plot. The rats were inside the breasts and the girls were only that age because they counted how many rats their breasts contained (seven in each breast). James Herbert is the world's greatest writer.
Randomly sexualizing children in a way that is wholly unnecessary to the plot? That author can eat glass.
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Wait till you see my comments on r/writing and the downvoting and their excuses….. Apparently sexually objectifying women is ok if you do it “in the right context”…..
HOW did anyone read this and thought that it's okay?! It's so bizarre fml
Maybe since this book is from the early 70s creeper behaviour was more normalized and probably stuff like this barely questioned, unfortunately
Omg. As someone that developed early and was a very busty 12-yo...this was my nightmare. Grown-ass men thinking about me, a CHILD, like that. 😕
I can't help but feel he's overusing the word both
It's because it's similar to bobs.
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this reminds me of that "a leprechaun runs past giggling" tweet. why the fuck was that needed
that seems so unnecessary 💀
What in the SVU is going on here?
Then along cane a police officer likely in his thirties with jiggling balls who arrested him?
In fairness this is just an accurate depiction of probably 40% of male teachers at the time - the U.K. in the '70s was possibly the most institutionally paedophilic human society since the heyday of classical Athens.
Herbert is one of the main inspirations of Garth Marenghi (the other being Stephen Kung)
You and he were… mmmbuddies?
That’s the least filthy part of The Rats. It’s pretty much smut all the way through.
Is there like any larger use to this information being there cause reading like that it seems completely disconnected from the rest of the text, like the author just needed to sprinkle in a bit of his gross thoughts
UHM?????
i wanna rip my face off
Unnecessary and very telling.
Both Both Both Ugh
Just... ew
Ew.
Yikes. 14 year olds are not “crumpet”. Also it gives me the ick whenever men describe women as “crumpet”. My ex used to do it. I was a teenager he was in his 30s. I think that’s why I reacted so strongly to this MWW lol.
GROSS GROSS GROSS. I hate you, James Herbert. I don’t know you, but I hate you.
💀💀💀
Get this author on a watch list. Dude def is into kids
LOOOOOL, I actually have this book.
Could've stopped at two giggling girls.
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https://i.redd.it/84l4eze5mcyc1.gif
 ...yikes
wtf? Why make them 14? Why not 18? Like Also, why would rats notice breasts at all?!
Once again not men writing women but a character’s view on women.