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Summary: Read!
Review: A worthy investment of time and imagination, and that's just on the reader's part. King may not receive any accolades for his genius in this lifetime, but he certainly should for this book alone, where the reader is extracted from reality to live the nightmares of children, so that we remember our kid fears even as adults.
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Summary: Someone should have edited "It"
Review: Stephen King now has so much power as a bestselling author that I guess no editor has the nerve to tell him that his stories would be much more effective is he just cut out, oh, say three hundred pages or so. "It" isn't by far King's only example of literary bloat, just one of the more unfortunate. His pure horror works have become increasingly erratic over the years, though this was actually one of his scarier concepts. Unfortunately, it takes so long to get to the payoff that by the time it comes you scarcely care. King's biggest fear these days seems to be the "Horror of the Black Marker."
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Summary: One of his best horror works
Review: Stephen King has always been hit-or-miss for me. But in this work, he has shown more complexity and depth than in any of his other strictly-horror pieces - and I've had the mixed blessing of reading them all. In It, we find him grabbing ahold of many fears we experienced or knew of in our childhoods - fear and imaginary. The carrier of these fears, the IT of It, is a creative one both for its own sake and King's. Using subtlety this time around, King illustrates scenes we could believe as happening, if we were the sort of believe in ghosts and other nasti beasties. One of his standard shortfalls is to have characters produce reactions that I find hard to believe human beings would exhibit under certain circumstances (even non-imaginary circumstances) - fortunately, this doesn't happen too often in this particular writing. Slight spoiler: it falls apart at the end somewhat, as he just keeps wanting to escalate the scale of the events in the book, but then can't stop himself. This has also occasionally been a problem with King's writings. However, you have a group of likable characters, a smaller group of disalikable ones and a bad...something...who produces nausea in all the right ways.
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Summary: cut down
Review: I'm from Turkey and I first read the turkish edition, which was only 399 pages long ("official edition").But the book scared me,it was really good.Now I'm reading the Original (1116 pages).
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: This it has been a very enjoyable book. The characters are really well developed, not only in their personal aspect, but also in their interrelation. The outcome did not bother me, I consider that it is even, secondary in history, but in no way it disappointed to me. Do not let amount of pages scares you, because if you read IT, at the end you will see that IT was a time investment.
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Summary: Do you want a balloon ?
Review: I rate a book by the amount of time spent thinking it over after you've finished reading it. The number of times you reread it , the number of people you lend it to with recommendations that it's not to be missed BUT wait anxiously till it is returned to you. In short ONE OF KIND . I haven't read it 74 times but I have read it more that several......... One of my favorites. See you again on The Talisman page.
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Summary: Wow
Review: I have read this book twice, the first literally without putting it down, the second over the course of a couple weeks. It is an amazingly scary book, and it freaked me out both times i read it. This is my favorite book of all time, and while Stephen King's The Stand was higher on the Millenium list, this is still im my opinion the better of the two. So, if you haven't yet, buy this book! Read it! Be scared! :)
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Summary: Best King Book/Movie
Review: How can you not love this book. Overall The best by King. I however didnt find it to frightening but is very suspensful and keeps you on your seat. Confusing sometimes but isnt that what good books are suppose to be? To make you think to open your mind and heart to possiblitys.
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Summary: Possibly the best book I have read so far.
Review: This book has, at the time of writing this review, been reviewed 422 times and has a five star average review. This is indicative of the quality of this book. This book is over a thousand pages long but I read it from beginning to end in couple of weeks, getting 'pulled in' night after night, reading three times as many chapters as I intended to read each evening. This book is very well written indeed. The characterisation is first class and the plot is well thought out. I would not say this book was 'scary' as such but it is certainly an exciting read. The sections where King writes about what it is like to be a pre-teen are excellent, he writes very convincingly about childhood. The ending is a little bit unusual, but it is still a fitting ending to the story. I have to say that this is the best Stephen King book that I have read so far, possibly the best book I have ever read.
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Summary: Too predictable
Review: If anyone browsing through cyberspace gets to this review - I'll assure you that you're not required to read EVERYTHING published by Stephen King. I'd read nearly half the book - 500 Pages, only to discover that I already knew who the monster was, where it lived and exactly when it would strike again. Why finish it?
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