“A landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times)—Stephen King’s #1 national bestseller about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It. Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when …
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.
“Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you… to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).
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IT is one of those books that just stick with you. Whether because of a scene, a character, or the overall story; IT really just always stays with you.
For me, it was how a person’s fear was used to really attack the characters in the book. I have often heard how people see the story of IT as a killer clown movie, or just some random throw away, but in truth its realizing a person’s fear. I had first come across IT in the TV mini-series starring Tim Curry when I was still in school, and loads of my friends were terrified by it. For me, it was nothing special, just a rather long Stephen King story. It was only when I read the book did I actually get the full concept of the story and it really terrified me.
With the release of the latest film release of this book (especially Part 1) I went back to this story and truthfully only got a quarter of the way in when I could just not read anymore. I have always enjoyed the early works of Stephen King, and ‘Pet Semetary’ was always at the top. However, after reading IT, that quickly changed.
This was the only book I’ve ever read twice. Wow, just an amazing story that covers so many different facets, i.e. coming of age, horror, thriller, fantasy. I really do recommend to anyone who loves horror, the macabre and all things that make you uncomfortable, yet intrigued.
JUST READ IT.
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It is so scary but amazing at the same time
Scared the pants off me. The children in the book were committed to their goal and make us realize the importance of courage and friendship.
It, by Stephen King, focuses firmly on a series of encounters that seven outcast, socially inactive teenagers have with a shape shifting, bloodthirsty entity in Derry, Maine, their hometown. Suffused with a sense of suffocating dread and malevolence, It is probably Stephen King at his very best, or shall we rephrase, scariest. The way each character deals with the encroachment of death and adulthood, It dives into the kind of character development rarely seen in modern horror novels. The book is massive but its bulk is used to accomplish all its greatness. The characters are intricate and multifaceted, the descriptions of Derry’s sewer systems span across pages and pages of immaculately crafted writing. The themes are disturbingly real and the encounters are both bone chilling and intensely riveting. Delves deep into subjects of abuse and has violent imagery. Not for the weak willed. Stephen King’s It is a masterpiece. A long, bloody, horrifying masterpiece.
Could not put this book down. I have read it twice now and the second time I was able to put things together that I didn’t the first time reading it.
This is horror at its peak, as only Stephen King can pull off. The story is also a significant coming of age story (another Stephen King staple). There is a lot more in this book than the movie shows, including an interesting magic turtle. The second part of the story involves the characters returning to their hometown as adults. I didn’t think this part was as compelling as the first half.
A REALLY scary book.
Read this many years ago and was so terrified I still think about it. As usual, as with many SK books, the movie does not represent the true terror of Pennywise the clown. I can’t imagine how people with own phobias can read this book. Scary to the extreme!
Amazing
I am in love. I love the movies too!
Great summer read
As always with Stephen King, impossible to put down. Some parts are so scary,
they have to be read twice!
Not a bad book, but King has produced much better.
Kept me on my seat.
I think this book is suitable for those who love reading scary stories .
Even though I have been afraid of clowns since childhood, I just had to read this book. It kept me on edge from the very first chapter right to the end.