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Summary: EXCELLENT! VERY FRIGHTENING
Review: I NEVER DEVOURED A BOOK OF SUCH SIZE AND IT TOOK A LITTLE IVER A MONTH in alot of ways more frightening than any other book because it plays on childhood fears which may be overcome but haunt you all your life. Stephen king mamanges to allow me to follow the story inspite of it's many characters which isn,t always easy to do. another case of every single page was worth it. Pennywise might be one of King's most frightening villains. The characters as kids are all so well written you find yourself identifying with all of them. an absolutely tremendous climax and the build up to it is just as good.

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Summary: Hmmm....
Review: This was the first book that truly terrified me. A big fan of most of Kings books anyway, I saw the film before I read the book, and of course, the book is much better. However, it really did frighten me, and I wouldn't recommend it to those of 'a nervous disposition'! I thought he rambled a bit, but the characters were fantastic, and almost as well developed as those in the Stand. Unfortuantly, I lost an awful lot of sleep through this book...

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Summary: Absolutely Horrific!
Review: I love this book! I'm only 13 and I couldn't put it down! IT has everything that a horror book needs.(no pun intended) The book has a wide variety of characters that you, as a reader, get to "know". I especially liked how the book jumped from the characters' childhood to their adult lives'. IT is one of King's best!!!!!

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Summary: Derry Maine is not the place to be
Review: I read this book during the summer and it still grips me. King has great characters along with a great Villan. It is worth reading you wont put it down.

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Summary: "Beep, Beep, Richie"
Review: A masterpiece. This guy will be renowned for as long as books are still being read. King is the bomb. Pennywise is darkly evil. The character development superb. Hats off to the master. Oh, and remember, "they float, oh yes, they float".

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Summary: 100,000 + Stars ***********
Review: (If I may borrow this phrase from Janice on "FRIENDS") OH- MY- GOD! This book is the best. SK is very descriptive and a small portion of the book dragged, but it is the ultimate. It took me three weeks to read the first 500 hundred pages, but I read the last half in less than a week. I couldn't put it down. The last one hundred pages took a day or two because I did not want to say goodbye to my new friends. The characters seem to become a part of your life. In just two pages you could go from crying to laughing to feeling mute because you can't warn "your new friends" that Henry and his buddies are close behind. I feel like I belonged with them, because when I was in school I was in a "Losers Club". "How can they forget each other after all that they've been through?" I cried. "I promise I won't forget". But thanks to the mind of Stephen it all makes sense. BUT DON'T SEE THE MOVIE. I am gladI read the book first. How could they do such a thing to my book? I had to stop the movie even before it ended. I'd rather remember "IT" from what I imagined in the book, not from what I saw in the movie. I had two nightmares. One when I first started getting into the book. Scared the crap out of me. After viewing some of the movie, the nightmare was simply laughable. The clown was not scary at all, and I do fear clowns sometimes. And that spider looked like something out of a 60's claymation movie. ( I watched tape 2 first by accident, but I couldn't tell the difference) READ THE BOOK AND STILL DON'T WATCH THE MOVIE!!!!

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Summary: King's Greatest Work
Review: When I started reading this book, I wasn't a very big fan of Stephen King. Probably because I never had read his work. When I picked up this book I couldn't put it down. I especially liked the "Apocalyptic Rock Fight". I've read many King novels since then, and the only one that can come close to being as great as It, is the Tommyknockers. A sensational thriller. I loved It!!

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Summary: The book was incredable to my children.
Review: This book scared the pants off my kids and they also loved the movie. I have read the book to them about seven times and they were always scared.

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Summary: im only 14 and it was the best book iv read ever,
Review: i never read a thing but i seen this book and i said man it looks good so i read it i could not take my eyes off it

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Summary: This book was a let down.
Review: After viewing the movie 6+ times, I just HAD to find and read the book. The movie is an outstanding piece of cinemography that I use in several of my high school classes (Creative Writing, Film and Drama, and American Literature & Writing). Because I find the movie's ending very anti-climactic, I stop the tape just as the "Losers" enter the tiny door to Its lair. Then, I have the students write their own endings. I find all of their endings to be very creative and, in many ways, more satisfying than the filmed ending (...I wish I could share some of the ideas the students came up with...very impressive). I really enjoyed the book's ending, using the Ritual of Chud and the psychic struggle between, first the young Bill, and then the much older Bill, Richie and Eddie. I also really liked the ways Mr. King describes Georgie's terror at opening the basement door and grabbing the wax, and Bill's experience in a college writing course (very realistic). His description of how It first came to Derry is pretty cool too. All of these things should have been included in the movie version. Still, these few things weren't enough to make the book as a whole very satisfying or overly enjoyable. I found King's use of profanity distracting, to say the least, as was his continual jumping from the present to the past and back again. The book tended to drag out with pages of exposition and literary "Stuff." It could have been shortened by 500 pages and not have lost any of the important information needed to make the story complete. The book was a let down, because of its sheer bulk and excessive use of foul language. Its 1090 pages were difficult to get through and I was relieved to reach the end.