Advantages: Good charactization, excellent plot Disadvantages: Overly long, the bloody stuttering
...I still read a lot, it was restricted to books - both fiction and non-fiction. During the Eighties, after watching 'Salems Lot one night on the telly and being totally scared by it, but enjoying it all the same, I decided to see if the book was as good as the film.
Well, it wasn't, but it was quite good, and having run out of authors to read, I decided that this Stephen King bloke would be someone who I could read. So, I read. Lots. Not because ... ...who is killing the kids, it takes the appearance of a clown and hides in the sewers. The adults are unaware of the supernatural nature of these killings, and it's only the kids who understand that the killer is much worse than a psycopath who preys on children.
The story really kicks off at the end of school in the summer of 1958 when Bill Denbrough gets together with other kids, and they find out the true nature of the killer and set out to fight ...
TheDuke 18.03.2003
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Advantages: All the book is an advantage! Disadvantages: More than 1000 pages... maybe too much if you don´t really like reading
...is “It” really someone? Is it a human being the one lurking through the sewers and pipes, coming out as an apparently harmless clown every 27 years, and seemingly nurturing from the kids’ most hideous fears? In 1958 seven youngsters were gathered together by an unknown force to confront It... 27 years later, all of them grown-ups and having forgotten the horror they lived in Derry, a phone call summons them to fulfil the promise they all made: “if ... ...It again”.
I am writing about which I consider Stephen King’s best book ever. A masterpiece that, after 13 years of having read it for the first time, doesn’t fail to horrify me again and again whenever I dare opening its cover... and that happens once every 6 months or so. There are loads of information that we use to miss the first time we read a novel, either because we are too interested on the main plot (and hence we unnoticedly tend to skip ...
Aurynne 25.01.2004
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Advantages: Ambitious, nostalgic, even touching Disadvantages: May be overwhelming for first-timers and short attention spans; the truly prudish may wish to steer clear of CHAPTER 22, part 12
...stories and dreaming of making it as a big-time writer. Henry Bowers and his friends wore the faces of my own childhood bullies. The trainyards were a couple blocks away from my house. The house on Niebolt Street became an old falling-down warehouse up the street my buddy and I used to play in. The Barrens were an old playground we used to visit that lay just over the tracks in the bad part of town. Keene's was the candy store up on the corner two ... ...parentheticals is left out and it runs into the main text)...and the language of the parts set in 1958, right down to the titles of the programs Ben Hanscom and that creepy little schmuck Patrick Hockstetter watch on TV, is so authentic and seamless that if there are anachronisms, I don't see them.
The only thing I would like to see, perhaps, is the after-story: what happened to the kids after they triumphed over their demonic tormentor in '58...and ...
Doctor_Belch 16.02.2004
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Advantages: Terrifying, charming, utterly real, with a cast of characters ou'll hate saying goodbye to come the novel's end. Disadvantages: It's a biggie - not overwritten at all though, in my opinion. Well-judged, but not a quick read.
...evil and ancient lurks. It takes children for preference, but it's not that picky. It has many forms - sometimes it comes as a clown, sometimes as a thing from your nightmares. Whatever its true form, it's probably worse by far than the masks it wears in public. As children, our intrepid group discover the secret that lives at the heart of Derry's rank heart, and must face the thing they fear the most. As adults, they bring their new neuroses back ... ...the Vampire, the Clown (actually, it could be strongly argued that this was the novel that made the clown a horror icon), and their kin. Playing on what makes each archetype truly frightening to a child, layering that with a palpable sense of mystery and threat, he makes them frightening once again to us as adults. Whether centre stage or in the wings, Pennywise the Clown is the ultimate B-movie amalgamation, and he's frankly terrifying. Read it, ...
RichardW 06.01.2001
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...the better books out there. It sort of stinks as a whole that everybody doesn't love it.
Everybody should try and obtain this book.
I hope everybody who buys books, will please go out and spend their good money on this one.
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Scapp70 12.05.2004
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Advantages: The Plot And Storyline Is Immense Disadvantages: Complicated In Some Parts - Read Properly If You Want Full Understanding :)
...I persuaded him to buy it for us and my brother to watch (ever do DVD nights? No, neither do we! But I thought it would be a nice change). I liked the film. Not really scary, but I really liked the idea of a killer clown. Imagine my delight when I heard there was a book out which apparently was absolutley brilliant.
The main characters are The "Losers Club" :
Beverly Marsh - The only female of the group.. A fiesty, pretty 11 year old redhead whose ... ...shape-shifting monster referred to as IT is killing innocent children, until seven wily youngsters fight back; The Losers Club. After individual and group encounters with IT - who takes the form of their biggest fears (but mostly as a terrifying clown named Pennywise) - the youngsters decide to destroy the creature. Enter the Ritual Of Chüd, fighting IT down in the sewers. Thinking they have destroyed IT, the 11 and 12 year olds soon go their separate ...
Beautiful69 16.08.2008
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Advantages: scary, well written Disadvantages: very long
Is it just me or does Stephen King set every novel he writes in Maine? All right, not every novel but certainly a great deal of them are set in the state where he lives. I am not saying it’s a bad thing, but for someone with an imagination like his, how hard is it to think of a location.
Before I discovered “IT”I had just read his short stories and some of his shorter novels, so I was unprepared for the sheer size and volume of ... ...also in the sense that it is thickly written. It is not easygoing and I found myself putting it down quite a few times in frustration as Stephen King does tend to wander off occasionally and the book lacks pace. Having said that however I never left it for long and always picked it up again, the first three hundred pages are tough but after that it is suddenly riveting and unputdownable.
“IT” is about a group of children all united by ...
willgould 01.06.2001
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Advantages: Greeeeaaaaat Book Disadvantages: Perfect for me but could be too long/rambling/confusing for others
...another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain"
Fantastic opening , makes you think 'All this terror started with a paper boat?!' and I suppose it does, yeah !
King waffles on a bit , lots of descriptive pieces of writing , makes you a little bored but he writes in such a sense that it makes you carry on reading and then your ... ...and sex and stuff in it , lots of flashbacks so don't get confused. It's got 1090 pages and it may take a long time to read but it is worth it , it's such a masterpiece.
The story line : A monster has been haunting Derry since the 1700's , killing kids and taking the form of what they fear the most. Seven kids try to kill IT and think they have suceeded until twenty seven years later , when IT comes back and starts killing again. The kids (who are ...
nufcbabe99 14.03.2008
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Advantages: Quite simply the best thing i have ever read Disadvantages: It has to end
...don't know if it's becuase it was the first one I read or what but i believe this his is greates piece of Fiction. As i think he is the best author we got, this makes IT the greates book i ever read.
Set in Derry, Maine (i want to live here! Al SK greates books are in Derry!) a group of children become friends and do battle against an evil force that lives in Derry (generall taking the form of a clown and lurking in the sewers). The kids are all ... ...seems a bit cliche but it is not executed like this at all.
Upon (seemingly) defeating the evil (IT) they all leave Derry bar one and get oon with their lives having promised to return to Derry should IT come back...
Nearly 30 years later more deaths are occurring in Derry and the now adult gang return to kill IT once and for all.
Words cannot describe how much i love this book, at over 1000 pages (of rather small text it is one big book but that ...
Staggly 22.03.2001
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True to King's reputation, this book was really scary. No doubt about it's epic size too. You definitely get your money's worth with this doorstop. The premise of the story is brilliant, that the entire clown is haunted, and Pennywise the clown takes 'scary clowns' to a whole new level with his razor teeth. Definitely a must read, though you have to find somewhere quiet to do so. You can't just skim this book. Give it the attention it deserves. ...
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Advantages: Compelling and well written Disadvantages: None
...read, and I thought that it was brilliant. It is one of those books that you just want to read on and on without stopping because you want to find out what happens next. It goes between two different time periods of a group of people, from their childhood in a town called Derry, to when they are adults and return to their hometown to face the sinister evil that had plagued them throughout their childhood. You don't have to worry about getting confused ...
DaGeeza 15.07.2000
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...the same evil force. It sounds weird and too ambitious and yet it flows together seamlessly and works really well. He manages to capture exactly the atmosphere of summer holidays when you were young and the complications and reponsibilites of adulthood all at once. A brilliant book. ...
bridgendboy 19.07.2001
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Advantages: contains everything Disadvantages: perhaps too long
...Ben Hanscom is fat and Stan Uris is Jewish) and the love that connects them is stronger than the violence of the evil.
This masterpiece and gem of Stephen Kings does not only deal with horror but with the valuable childhood, love, fun and friendship. It deals with life! ...
Ronny 04.02.2001
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Advantages: Great set pieces and memorable characters Disadvantages: Overlong
...about childhood and about friendship. It also reflects the way in which our deepest fears are often rooted in childhood. For the protagonists of this novel, there is a rare opportunity to go back and conquer those childhood fears. Structurally, the novel consists of the same story told twice. A group of childhood friends come together to defeat the horror which is slowly engulfing the small town in which they live. Unfortunately they fail to destroy ... ...one friend who stayed in the town, to face the horror once again. Why am I being so vague about "the horror"? Simply because it takes a huge variety of physical forms in a terrific series of set pieces. King on top form, if rather overlong. ...
pvincent 17.06.2001
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This is more than just a gory, senseless horror novel: it is also a sensitive, coming-of-age story of seven misfit children. IT by Stephen King is a terrific novel with an excellent ending, and I would recommend it to anyone! PS. Do not judge the book by the movie. The novel is about a million times better! ...
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