Italics? ??

[chief4db]

Currently reading IT. On page 730 or so. Sometimes there are literally pages that are in italics. I always thought when you saw a word in italics in a novel it meant to emphasize that word and pay special attention. In it, throughout the book so far there r sometimes 2 pages ALL in italics. Does anyone know why. I thought maybe he was making sure we knew it was back in time in the 50s when they were kids but not sure. Did king ever say why he had so much italics in this book. Any ideas welcome. Thanks

 

[kingricefan]

Italics are used to emphasize a word in a sentence. Within It, I thought King used it to show us the inner thoughts of the characters. Or it's to show a different time period within a scene. I could be wrong.

 

[80sFan]

Italics are used to emphasize a word in a sentence. Within It, I thought King used it to show us the inner thoughts of the characters. Or it's to show a different time period within a scene. I could be wrong.

I thought the same thing.

 

[not_nadine]

Yes. He still does it.

 

[muskrat]

Italics are used to emphasize a word in a sentence. Within It, I thought King used it to show us the inner thoughts of the characters. Or it's to show a different time period within a scene. I could be wrong.

You ARE wrong. Those pages with slanted letters are the result of a faulty typesetter, causing the contents to lean during shipping. You should be able to return the book to the printer for a new copy. I did that with my HB of Wolves of the Calla--all those Pere Callahan flashback parts. Bad glue or something.

 

[blunthead]

Italic type - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm no expert. Italics is used for a number of things, to emphasize a word or phrase and to replace quotation marks, for starters. sK uses them often to quote a character's thoughts. I think the pages of them are to express narrative from a time or place other than that of the present narrative.

 

[blunthead]

You ARE wrong. Those pages with slanted letters are the result of a faulty typesetter, causing the contents to lean during shipping. You should be able to return the book to the printer for a new copy. I did that with my HB of Wolves of the Calla--all those Pere Callahan flashback parts. Bad glue or something.

You mean what you sniffed?

 

[kingricefan]

You ARE wrong. Those pages with slanted letters are the result of a faulty typesetter, causing the contents to lean during shipping. You should be able to return the book to the printer for a new copy. I did that with my HB of Wolves of the Calla--all those Pere Callahan flashback parts. Bad glue or something.

You mean what you sniffed?

Yeppers, I'm going with the bad sniffing thing.....

 

[not_nadine]

Sometimes it happens when you shake the book really hard over yer head too. Or dance around with it, even.

Had to pick some letters up. I have found random parentheses in his works that way as well.

 

[kingricefan]

You ARE wrong. Those pages with slanted letters are the result of a faulty typesetter, causing the contents to lean during shipping. You should be able to return the book to the printer for a new copy. I did that with my HB of Wolves of the Calla--all those Pere Callahan flashback parts. Bad glue or something.

I want to return this post as it contains a leaning lean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[muskrat]

Yeppers, I'm going with the bad sniffing thing.....

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...

 

[kingricefan]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...

It's alright, Muskie, it's just like riding a bike.....

 

[GNTLGNT]

 

[Mr. Gray Robert]

Sometimes it happens when you shake the book really hard over yer head too. Or dance around with it, even.

Had to pick some letters up. I have found random parentheses in his works that way as well.

 

[recitador]

Italics are used to emphasize a word in a sentence. Within It, I thought King used it to show us the inner thoughts of the characters. Or it's to show a different time period within a scene. I could be wrong.

This right here. In the case of It, he uses italics because in the chapters in question, the story's emphasis is 1958, but the intros are in 1985, so the italics differentiate the two nicely. Although he does it at a couple random times during the finale as well, when the story is whipping back and forth between the two periods constantly.