It

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Summary: The best piece of terror, I've ever read
Review: I've read almost all of King's books and I am an fan, but this is simply a masterpiece, you go through all the range of emotions. This is the best novel I've read. Bram Stoker's Dracula has lost it's first place. A MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: Really cool book
Review: The book and movie were both really cool. I read the book for school and the teacher was impressed. People finally began to realize that I wasn't as dumb as they thought, because they don't have the power to handle such a stirring and awesome book. My favorite characters in the movie were the young Ben Hanscom, the young Richie Tozier, and the young Stan Uris. The movie was really cool. It made my little brother mess up his pants when he first saw it! He'd come crying and saying that he wanted to see some corny show. Only a wimp could not handle the book or the movie. If you want to read a really good book or watch a really cool movie, I suggest IT any day.

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Summary: Loved It
Review: This was my first Stephen King novel I read and it was so gripping. I could not put the book down. So far nothing has compared to IT!

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Summary: very nice
Review: for me, this was the start. this is where i started liking to read good writing. not the stuff they tell you is high literature, but the writing that's really good. the very last part where he talks about leaving derry in a dream and how it's like leaving childhood still strikes a chord with me somwhere. i remember reading it years ago and having goosebumps at the end there. some of his best writing.

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Summary: This book is only scary to the intelligent.
Review: I had never been a fan of Stephen King until I saw the film version of IT at age 10. It effected me for months. Suddenly walking past a drain pipe became excruciatingly horrific. One year later my brother bought the book and I took it upon my 11-year-old shoulders to read it. Being the same age as the losers at the time I was intrigued. While it is well over 1,000 pages long, I have read it about 6 times. The time setting for the childhood horrors couldn't have been better. The innocence of the 50's clashing with the evil living inside the drainpipes of quaint Derry, Maine. I have never loved a book this much. King does a great job of switching from the respectable well-off grownups of the 80's to the strong children of 1958. On second viewing I hated the movie. It did nothing but cheesily retard the book. It barely stuck to the storyline. If you have some time, definitely read this horrorfest.

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Summary: STEPHEN KING AMAZES READERS EVERYWHERE ONCE AGAIN!
Review: Gruesome, horrific, terrifying, but wonderfully captivating, this five-inch thick novel is worth the time. "It", a child-eating, form-changing monster who selects certain children and lives to destroy them. However, seven children manage to escape "It" in their childhood. When "It" comes back to Derry, Maine, their hometown, to destroy other children, they are worried. Uprooted from their current life, they go back to Derry to try to destroy "It"--the monster who wants revenge.

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Summary: A Flawed masterpiece
Review: IT is clearly intended to be King's Magnus Opus, as it combines most the central themes of his work into one, no-holds barred extraveganza.

There is King's favorite theme of A Strange Town that appears banal and ordinary on the surface but has nightmarish secrets just below the surface. Derry, Maine is one of his greatest achievments. It is a town that both physically and historically seems as real and vivid as your own hometown, but beneath the surface is hell on on earth.

We see King's keen appreciation of the wonders and terrors of childhood. With the possible exception of Robert Macammon, no-one can touch King in this area. King's description of the Loser's Club deeply touches and stirs the twelve year old in all of us. King's portrayal of the heroic children and the adults they become is probably his finest characterization ever.

And we see King's recurring theme of what would happen if all our childhood fears turned out to be true. Here, King takes the notion of what would we do if everything we were afraid of was really there to kill us to its most terrifying conclusion. The result is some of King's most bloodcurdling horror ever, which is as scary as it gets.

So where does it go wrong? The first half of the book or so is fantastic. When the arch enemy Pennywise is shown in enigmatic glances with the whole terrible secret history of the town gradually uncovered, the effect is spellbinding. Unfortuntely, when King trys to explain and understand Pennywise, much of the initial power is dissapated. In the second half of the book, King takes the plot from the terrors of childhood and its adult scars into a confusing, bizarre and ultimately silly mystical journey. In IT and several of King's later books, he demonstrates two weaknesses: (1) He is much better at the set-up than the conclusion and (2) He should leave the metaphysical mythologizing to Clive Barker, because King is awkward and unfocused when he goes there.

This book is over eleven hundred pages in hardback, and it could have lost at least three hundred pages. Among the parts he should have left on the editing floor is an extremely unpleasant excursion into child-porn towards the end of the book that is probably the worst scene he has ever written.

King does manage to wrap up this brilliant but tarnished epic in a very powerful and emotional conlusion that brings tears to my eyes whenever I think about it. This is a wonderful book for re-reading. Then, you can just read the good parts (which are many and very, very good indeed) and skip the excesses.

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Summary: EVERYONE FLOATS DOWN HERE...
Review: This is the first book by Stephen King that I have read and I was amazed. I have just finished reading it and am going to read all of his other books. STEPHEN KING RULES!!!!!

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Summary: The Monster Under the Bed
Review: This is the best King has written up to now, and the change in his style and topic choices that ocured in the last six or seven years regretfully suggests that he will not be up to this quality again. The book is superb, with a relentless tension that mounts from the first page and maintains its magnitude until the last chapter. The horror of the plot takes its root from the irrational yet so common fears everyone endures during childhood years, and this is what makes it so disturbing. Character analyses are, although very classic and down-to-lines, very good, and many heroes in the plot keep you guessing who will survive the ordeal. King has also topped his storytelling talent in this novel. The place descriptions are very good, giving a nice view of a small American town, with a touch of malice in every step. One would except a book so long will be boring, in some parts at least. But that is definetely not the case. I did not look at the page numbers while I read it, except when it was time to put it down. And after that, sleep was hard to come.

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Summary: I really enjoyed this book and the movie.
Review: This is a really cool book and the movie was even better. I watched this movie as a child and it didn't effect me at all. I actually enjoyed this as a child even now I really liked this book.