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Summary: Adults go to town to kill monster that they injured as kids.
Review: I thought that this was a great book. It was about a group of 5 adults called to their childhood hometown of Derry, Maine. As children, they had defeated a shape-changing monster known to them as It that ate children. As grown-ups, the attacks have started up again. They must destroy It once and for all. As a child, leader Stuttering Bill Denbrough's brother was killed by It, so Bill holds the biggest grudge against the monster. This book is really long, but if you can make it through page 100, you get addicted. I'm only 11, and i can tell you that this must be one of the most creative and horrifying tales cooked up by the award-winning horrormaster himself, Stephen King.Mass
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Summary: Problems with the ending, anyone?
Review: I enjoyed this book too and at the number of pages it was, itwas the longest book I had ever read and quite an accomplishment to mewhen I finished it. Well, at least that's how it looks, from what can be seen. Despite this latter part, it was somewhat disappointing. Still, King has a knack for writing kids and their bullies like in the movie "Stand By Me" (yes, I'm saying this because he wrote the novella on which it is based, "The Body"). They are really funny. Which is a nice contrast or companion to the horror he delivers.
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Summary: The best book I've ever read.
Review: This is my first Stephen King book, and I'm SURE it's his best. Do you know why? Because I'm still a kid, and the portrayal of kids in this book is STUNNING!!!! The book is SO magnificent. I finished reading it about three weeks ago, and I'm already reading it again! There is no way to explain how exceptional this book is. Pennywise the Clown is the best villain I've ever come across in any form of art. And this book is not just a horror. It is a drama in a lot of places. Especially the 2nd part of the book, called "June of '58". Whenever a chapter comes up involving the kids, I smile. Not that the grownup parts are bad. They are also stunning, but I can SO relate to the kids, especially Richie and Bill. The only thing I didn't really like was the final form of It. Come on! A spider?! King could do better than that. It just wasn't as evil as Pennywise. But the very end, the last two sections, called "Derry:The Last Interlude" and "Bill Denbrough beats the Devil (II)" are amazing. This whole book is SOOOOOOOO good. I can't express the feeling I get when I think about this book. It's not just a book to me. It's part of my LIFE.
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Summary: A Very Scary Book!
Review: It is the best King book I've read. Yes, it is very long - but it is more than worth it. The great thing about It are the underlying tales throughout the story, like the one about the shootout in town and you hear of how a clown appeared. These tales capture the heart of the book and essentially lay the foundations, while the main "twin" story's continue. Along with 'The Stand', It is the most in-depth and complex book I have read, and like 'The Stand', you really feel like you are becomming part of the characters - like you are fighting It with them. A great book, a great story and brilliantly written. PS. Read the book before you see the movie!
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Summary: We all float down here! And soon YOU WILL TOO!
Review: I watched the miniseries, before I read the book. And at the time I didn't even know that it was a book. Cause I was eight at the time, but now that I've read the book, I think it's so much better then the movie. And I wish to read it again, if only I could find my copy!
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Summary: WHAT A MASTERPIECE!
Review: This is my absolute favorite King book. It is first of all very scary-that clown is creepy! The characters are extermely well-drawn. I especially love the seamless transitions from the 1950s to the present, so masterfully worded, they take place within a single sentence. The complexity of the plot never disappoints. Way to go!
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Summary: want a ballon?
Review: We all float down here so come down and play Georgie
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Summary: The "threshhold of visibility"
Review: This hypothesis of King's originates here--the way children can get away with mistreatment of each other in broad daylight because adults don't seem to notice. For years, King has been giving us an increasing amount of philosophy to go with the scary stuff, which definitely makes him less one-dimensional than most horror writers. And the protagonists here get shafted from more sides than just their peers. The one girl has an abusive father. The racist bully the black kid has to contend with has bred true from a bigoted father who targets the whole family. Another has a mother who's bringing him up to be a hypochondriac. The fat boy's mother is resentful of his attempts to lose weight. None of this is on the scale of a Holocaust or a Bataan Death March, so society is all too tempted to see it as chump change. The driving force behind this story's man's inhumanity to man, kid's inhumanity to kid, MAN'S inumanity to kid--is an evil entity named "Pennywise". Whom I think is an allegory. The jacket notes of this book call its protagonists "losers". That's too much of a cop-out for my money--it implies a deserving of one's lot in life. A social "original sin" concept, perhaps. King himself comes up with a much better term for them in the course of the story--"wimps". Natural victims for whomever needs one. There's some cousin or another of Pennywise's who lurks beneath each human community, everywhere. It's called "entropy", the untimate social disease.
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Summary: Scary, but defintely worth it!!!
Review: I came back to this book after reading it over nine years ago. I was so taken with IT, I read it whenever I could, often sitting in the back of my highschool classrooms, IT lodged inside my textbooks... More incredible than getting back into the story is remebering myself as I was during the time I first read IT...especially a walk home during a moonless, rainy night when the dripping waters of the sidewalk drains tooks on a terror they never had before. Read this book, you won't be sorry!
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Summary: Nearly as good as The Stand
Review: Like many (unfortunate) people, I saw the miniseries before I read the book. I thought that the miniseries was good, but the ending really...well, was awful. When I read the book, I understood how it related to everything else. Some people do not like the ending of the book either, but I have to say that it was very impressive. Maybe the fact that I also read the DT series first made me think different. Incredible book. I would recommend It to anyone.
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