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Summary: "IT" WORKS ALL YOUR EMOTIONS.
Review: Stephen King's book, "IT", is to me about one word... friendship. Long lasting, undying, deep, gratifying, caring, heartfelt friendship. The kind of friendship that even if years pass without any real kind of contact, you can meet again and continue as if no time had passed at all. The members of the "Losers Club met under strange and sometimes dire circumstances but, formed a bond that could never be broken. They shared deep and sometimes frightening secrets. They looked after one another and stayed strong "together" fighting a supernatural inhuman evil being in "Pennywise the Clown" who wanted them dead. "IT" had me very scared the three times I read the novel. How could it not? Werewolves chasing you while you race away on a bike. Horrid eerie voices coming from sewers and drains. Mummies and vampires and gigantic spiders. Maybe the worst is pictures in a photo album coming to life and trying to reach at you. Despite all it's horrors that can scare just about anyone, especially children, I found the kids growing attachment and need for one another, inspite of all their differences, most memorable. At times touching. Maybe the saddest truth of the novel is the "growing up" into adults and having lost your childhood innocence. Stephen King definitely hit a homerun with this fictional horror, yet very real human story. I give it the highest recommendation.
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Summary: One helluva book!
Review: It is my favorite book I've ever read. The characters are so real. That alone just scares you. Not to even mention this book is freakiest thing i've ever read. I first read it when i was ten or eleven. I can't remember in my old age (16). I read it twice though when i first got it. Not back to back but there wasn't a huge gap in between. I would recommend this book to anyone who like long and GOOD books. You feel when your finished with it that you were actually there with those seven kids. I think after I finished with what i'm reading now i'm gonna read this book again for a third time. I have seen the movie but there's no way you can fit 1100 pages into a 3 hour movie. It did a good job though for the time given. Anyways, this is a must read for anyone that likes King at all.
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Summary: One of the best books i've ever read
Review: The movie was okay, but NO WHERE near the brilliance of the book. The characters will touch your heart and "IT" itself will terrify you. This is a true masterpiece.
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Summary: Magic
Review: Why can't we hold onto the magic of being young, when if you "stepped on the crack" you would "break your mother's back"? This is a story that focuses of the beliefs and the magic of seven friends who BELIEVED, really BELIEVED in the magic of themselves, and hung onto that belief when they needed it the most, even after it had faded into adulthood. This is so much more than a horror story, it's characters are so much more than just characters in a story, they are your childhood friends, the ones you rode bikes with down the longest hill, the ones who told you not to pick up that penny because it was on the "tails" side, and that was bad luck, the ones who believed in all the MAGIC of friendship. Once you pick it up, you won't put it down until the very last page, and then you'll want more. I took this book everywhere, read it everywhere, and I did it twice :) Let Stephen King take you back to the place where magic was within your reach just by holding onto the hands of your friends.
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Summary: Lovecraft and childhood
Review: The first King novel I ever read, and still my favorite. Pain-staking descriptions and characterizations, a heavy Lovecraft influence, and a terrific story of childhood friendships and terrors make this epic the epitome of monster tales. The ending does feel a bit short and weak when put in the perspective of the sprawling horror of the rest of the book, but it is forgivable in light of the carefully crafted storytelling preceding it. As a recommendation: if you liked Its kind of cosmic evil and want to see more, W.H. Hodgeson ("The House on the Borderlands") and H.P. Lovecraft ("The Colour Out of Space" and "The Dunwich Horror") are your best bets.
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Summary: An incredible thrill-ride; a true masterpiece
Review: It is truly a masterpiece. Everything about this book makes it so. The characters are wonderful-Bill, Ben, and all the rest of the Lucky 7 are so real you will believe they are the kids down the street. Only they have more on their minds than just the everyday games that most kids play...these children are up against the ultimate terror, a thing which can turn into their innermost fears. It is this feature which makes "It" so terrifying. It can be anything. This book is like an entire world confined within a cover, and you will find that the world of the book often intrudes-no, that's not a good word to describe it-you'll find the world of the book often appears in your thoughts. I find myself thinking of this book often, another great feature. The book is indeed thought-provoking; long after you finish it you will be thinking about the events related that occurred in Derry, Maine, a town that is, as the intro says, as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. You must read this; to do otherwise is to deprive yourself of King's best work, a true masterpiece of literature. I enjoyed every page of It and will continue to enjoy it many times in the future. Do yourself a favor and buy this masterpiece so that you may return to Derry anytime you wish, and meet all the deeply-developed characters who live there.
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Summary: King has mastered the terrors that can lie in a small town.
Review: The one thing that I have always loved about King's writing is his characterization of people in small towns. Seven school losers band together to fight the most evil being of all of Stephen King's antagonists. A being that has the capability of making people see their worst fears come to life. The seven children are linked together by their ability to see the being manifest itself into a clown (something I have always feared as a child) and terrorize them. Another good book about good versus evil.
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Summary: It
Review: I read Stephen Kings IT for the first time about ten years ago and within the first twenty or so pages fell in love with it as I had fell in love with no other book before or since. Explaining the allure of this book is difficult; to call it a simple horror novel would be doing it a great injustice, its much more a rights of passage novel, the characters shining out between the pages, childhood has rarely been dealt with so convincingly as in the pages of this novel. The only flaw in what otherwise would have been his masterpiece was the ending it just didn't do justice to what had preceded it, I just hope Stephen will some day reedit the novel and give it the finale it deserves.
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Summary: Why is It so good?
Review: I had tried to read "It" twice before I was able to get into it. The first time, I was browsing in a bookshop, and I read the first chapter "After the Flood". It was raining that night and I couldn't sleep. I was around 14 at that time and really scared. Tried again a couple years later, made it through the second chapter- "After the Festival". It was not as scary as the first chapter and I gave up on the book, preferring Robert Ludlum's italics. Then, I read it again. Started from the beginning. Made it through the first couple of chapters fairly quickly. Half way through "Stanley Uris Takes a Bath" I had some doubts- couldn't figure out where the book was going. But I kept on. I read that book- all thousand plus pages in around 2 days. I missed classes, missed meals, didn't sleep- you know how it goes sometimes. For me, the book was only about friendship. About being young, about believing, about what you did after school, how it felt to be with friends, how it was to play games and watch movies together, what they meant to you and you to them... As for the horror- there is horror, there is enough stuff there to churn your stomach- there is the murderous clown, there is the werewolf, there is a diseased tramp, strange creatures that come from the river with needle teeth and eat kids alive- but there are also horrors like the school bully and the neighbour who walks away from a rape that is about to happen in front of him. But the horror is - atleast to me, like wallpaper- the background- to a beautiful story of friendship, childhood and imagination. I love this book- I've read it so often and I still go back to it when I am bored. Check the book out. If you like it, you'll love it. If not, its probably because you didnt get through the first three chapters.
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Summary: "It"
Review: "It" by Stephen King is one of the most powerful books I've ever read. It was a frightening, shifting story that keeps you riveted until the very end, when everything ties together and suddenly makes sense. Each of the characters was described in amazingly life-like detail, each of them somehow reminding you of someone you know, or even sometimes yourself. The plot was laid out sort of like a mystery story, letting you know a little bit here and a little bit there, proportioned just right so you know enough that you're not confused but not enough to figure out how it will end. The force that is haunting the town is the ultimate evil, feeding on the blood of innocent children and having no regard for human life. If I had been younger, this book would have given me a deadly fear of clowns. Though on the outside a killer clown seems a bit silly, it is considerably more than just a clown. "It" is a recreation of every fear in the character's mind, every secret terror that plagues the deepest corners of their hearts. But the plot, characters, and overall quality of the book make this one of the best books I've ever read.
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