*spoilers* What Is Your Favorite Part Of It?

[Doc Creed]

I've always liked the dreamlike feel of the scene where Bill Denbrough is walking around Derry and has a random conversation with a kid on a skateboard. I get nostalgic when reading the ending, too. Goosebumps.
The scariest parts, to me, are when Bill and Richie try cycling away from the werewolf on Neibolt Street (you can tell how traumatized they are, afterward) and Mike alone in the library. As a librarian, I really felt a connection to Mike Hanlon and his first person interludes.

 

[muskrat]

Seems each time I read It I find a new part that's my favorite. On my first read, I suppose my fave was when Ben kicked Henry in the pills. I was, like, eleven, and I think it was the first time a book made me laugh out loud. Real loud.

Last time I just loved them Derry Interludes--all the Mike/backstories junk, like the Blackspot and Kitchener Ironworks Explosion.

But anything from the summer of 58 will do me. Anytime King takes us back to the old days, those are my favorites of anything he's done.

 

[Mr. Gray Robert]

I LOVE the Derry Interlude's!! How IT is Derry and Derry is IT!!

 

[Pucker]

I've always liked the dreamlike feel of the scene where Bill Denbrough is walking around Derry and has a random conversation with a kid on a skateboard.

I always felt like that kid had a story of his own to tell. I don't know why. He just seemed like he knew stuff.

You really can't be careful on a skateboard.

 

[Dollarwise the clown]

My favourite part is definitely The Death of
Patrick Hockstetter I first read IT when I was 12 and that entire chapter scared the hell out of me, the thing with the fridge, the blood sucking, flying leech things, and then Patrick getting taken down into the sewer by IT and the last line being "It began to feed" still gives me chills. Anyone else?

 

[champ1966]

The Losers club building the dam. This reminds me so much of my childhood.

 

[Karloff]

c'mon, guys, you're really able to pick up a favourite ???

 

[flipska19]

Re-reading this one. The part that always stuck with me was

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The balloon that was going against the wind.

 

[Karloff]

yep.

Ben and The Mummy - scarrrryyy! oO

*not my favourite though, not able to choose

 

[Waylander]

Love it all. I particularly enjoy the kids in the house on Nielbolt street. Wandering through the house, the tension building, the scramble to escape, the fear and the relief. I've got to read this book again now. That happens every time I get to thinking about what happens in this story.

 

[Bardo]

The building of the DAm and clubhouse,
It reminded me when I was a kid, hanging with my friends in our own "Barrens"
Good stuff,

 

[AchtungBaby]

It's a small scene, but

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when the remaining adults are walking by a store-front, and Bev almost imagines seeing Stan, Mike, and Eddie with them

. Makes me cry every time.

 

[chris2-4]

All of IT really. I like the history behind Derry. I like all the characters, good and bad. I like how it flips back and forth between time periods (towards the end it's done at a rapid pace) yet you always know where you are in the story. It's a perfect book and would be my favorite if not for The Stand.

 

[raperm]

Hard to pick a favorite moment, really, but there are a few that stand out.

1: Ben Hanscom's story about how he lost weight.

2: Mike's "Interlude" journal entries.

3: A small one, but poignant; after they kill It and go back to the hotel, they walk in and Beverly sees Eddie and Stan's reflections in the door. She never forgets it, but never tells anyone about it. Though that also always puzzled the hell out of me; if she remembers seeing that, does she remember who they were? Seems like they're all magically FORCED to forget, to the point where Mike's address book is actually magically fading out their names so that he can't remember them or look them up.

 

[mal]

I liked the section where the 2 boys went into the cellar of that old house by the railroad tracks as kids. That took a lot of guts.

 

[Ant.]

Hard to pick a favorite part but a great part that hasn't been mentioned yet is Richie's encounter with Paul Bunyan both as a youngster and adult and how they are written in together

 

[Lynnie L]

Any part with Pennywise in it.

 

[GNTLGNT]

Any part with Pennywise in it.

 

[Lynnie L]

Brilliant!! I loved the Governor too!