Finally reading IT!!

[BrooklynDave]

Just had to post that Im finally reading IT!! I've read every SK book, growing up over the years, up until The Colorodo Kid. Then had a bit of a falling out with reading in general. Always said I'd save IT for a rainy day. What a great, epic book to jump back into SK with. Plus, reading it in the summer feels even better since the flashbacks take place in the summer - I feel more connected. Almost halfway through it and deeply involved!

 

[Doc Creed]

Just had to post that Im finally reading IT!! I've read every SK book, growing up over the years, up until The Colorodo Kid. Then had a bit of a falling out with reading in general. Always said I'd save IT for a rainy day. What a great, epic book to jump back into SK with. Plus, reading it in the summer feels even better since the flashbacks take place in the summer - I feel more connected. Almost halfway through it and deeply involved!

Many of us have been reading it again to refresh us for the upcoming movie. Glad you joined us, don't forget to share your thoughts. He has written some fine novels since The Colorado Kid. Dig in.

 

[BrooklynDave]

Many of us have been reading it again to refresh us for the upcoming movie. Glad you joined us, don't forget to share your thoughts. He has written some fine novels since The Colorado Kid. Dig in.

Yes lately I've been seeing a lot of people reading or holding IT. On the subway, at the airport, in the street, etc. I get excited everytime I spot someone lol

 

[GNTLGNT]

Yes lately I've been seeing a lot of people reading or holding IT. On the subway, at the airport, in the street, etc. I get excited everytime I spot someone lol

...you'll come out the other end a bit grimy but fulfilled and even a little transcended....

 

[Zone D Dad]

Yes lately I've been seeing a lot of people reading or holding IT. On the subway, at the airport, in the street, etc. I get excited everytime I spot someone lol

Count me in. Took it with me on a business trip last week and found myself entraced all over again. Assuming I go all the way through, it will be my 4th trip through Derry. Like most, I can't wait for the film and wanted a refresh.

 

[Doc Creed]

Count me in. Took it with me on a business trip last week and found myself entraced all over again. Assuming I go all the way through, it will be my 4th trip through Derry. Like most, I can't wait for the film and wanted a refresh.

Have you read 11/22/63? A significant portion of that book concerns Derry and chronologically it's only a short time after the events of IT. Then, of course, Insomnia is set in Derry.

 

[Zone D Dad]

Have you read 11/22/63? A significant portion of that book concerns Derry and chronologically it's only a short time after the events of IT. Then, of course, Insomnia is set in Derry.

I have read both. It's been a long time since Insomnia (not my favorite) and I forgot about 11/22/63 (which I did enjoy very much). But when I think of Derry, I will automatically think of It.

 

[Ian_C]

This is my 2nd fave King book, after The Stand. I've read it 4 or 5 times now.

You'll love it!

As for the movie, I was skeptical at first. I thought the TV movie didn't do it anywhere near justice, and the first trailer for the new one seemed to have that typical modern horror trope of Pennywise rushing across the screen in a jerky way, like he was under a strobe light. However, the second trailer has me excited. I wish it went back and forth from the past to the present like the book did, but I understand that would make for a movie longer than Titanic.

 

[doowopgirl]

Just had to post that Im finally reading IT!! I've read every SK book, growing up over the years, up until The Colorodo Kid. Then had a bit of a falling out with reading in general. Always said I'd save IT for a rainy day. What a great, epic book to jump back into SK with. Plus, reading it in the summer feels even better since the flashbacks take place in the summer - I feel more connected. Almost halfway through it and deeply involved!

I only re read It a few years ago. When It came out originally I totally didn't get It. When I did boy oh boy! Enjoy!

 

[Brooks]

I just finished rereading It in preparation of the new movie. It is daunting being that it is over 1100 pages. The entire plot is great.

But you know what makes this a top 3 SK novel for me? The character development. The details describing each character and their lives, including generational circumstances. Some good examples are:

Spoiler

The Loser club's family issues which makes them more dependent on each other. Also, the history of IT in Derry including (in great details) the black spot, the Bradley Gang, the silver dollar massacre, etc. is awesome.

Finally, another great ending from SK. I'm curious to see how the movie adapts the end conclusion but this why I keep coming back for more of King's work.

 

[prufrock21]

Hope you enjoy, um, it.

 

[Mel217]

Just had to post that Im finally reading IT!! I've read every SK book, growing up over the years, up until The Colorodo Kid. Then had a bit of a falling out with reading in general. Always said I'd save IT for a rainy day. What a great, epic book to jump back into SK with. Plus, reading it in the summer feels even better since the flashbacks take place in the summer - I feel more connected. Almost halfway through it and deeply involved!

I hope you're not disappointed, I sure wasn't!!
I'm glad you mentioned reading "It" in the summer time as I feel the same way. There are "summer books" and "winter books"; I always start The Shining during our first snowfall. Delightfully creepy

 

[Mel217]

Also, I'm still impressed that jumping around the time line wasn't more confusing in the book. I've read books where the time line was all over the place and it got a bit confusing every the book jumped around but that didn't seem to happen in "It".

 

[Ian_C]

Also, I'm still impressed that jumping around the time line wasn't more confusing in the book. I've read books where the time line was all over the place and it got a bit confusing every the book jumped around but that didn't seem to happen in "It".

Absolutely!

The plot of this story could have been so confusing, but rather it was very cohesive. Perfect in almost every way.

 

[Mel217]

Absolutely!

The plot of this story could have been so confusing, but rather it was very cohesive. Perfect in almost every way.

What gets me is the way the story from '58 and the story from '85 are so intertwined it's like they're happening at the same time in some kind of weird parallel universe, and it's easy to hop from one decade to the other. Mr. King has a very unique and very talented writing style, but it really seems to shine through in this book IMO!

Spoiler: small spoiler

(Plus, I love the fact Dick Halloran makes an appearance in one of the flashbacks to before 1958. He's one of my fav's from the Shining so this just made me smile. Love that character weaving so well done in King books!)

 

[mal]

Are you done yet? What'd you think?

 

[Mel217]

I just finished rereading It in preparation of the new movie. It is daunting being that it is over 1100 pages. The entire plot is great.

But you know what makes this a top 3 SK novel for me? The character development. The details describing each character and their lives, including generational circumstances. Some good examples are:

Spoiler

The Loser club's family issues which makes them more dependent on each other. Also, the history of IT in Derry including (in great details) the black spot, the Bradley Gang, the silver dollar massacre, etc. is awesome.

Finally, another great ending from SK. I'm curious to see how the movie adapts the end conclusion but this why I keep coming back for more of King's work.

Spoiler: A spoiler about your spoiler

That's part of why I love the Loser's Club, and I love the fact they're not all rich, beautiful, perfect kids. The flashbacks to pre-1958 as told by the old timers really got me. Some of them were almost as disturbing as moments in Misery, which is one of those books I consider psychologically horrifying to the point of having to put the book down for a moment.

 

[Mel217]

Are you done yet? What'd you think?

Do you mean me or the others? I've read "It" before but I decided a re-read was in order
I finished the book and I did the same thing I always do when a very good and very riveting book nears the end...I slow way down. I read a few pages at a time vs. a few hundred at a time. I think it's my way of prolonging the awesome. In a really pathetic and sad way it's almost like when a book that good ends, you've lost a group of friends you've grown quite accustomed to hanging out with.
I wanna cram in the Talisman and Cuckoo's Nest for the umpteen billionth time before the first snow hits and I have to drop everything and start the Shining.

 

[mal]

Do you mean me or the others? I've read "It" before but I decided a re-read was in order
I finished the book and I did the same thing I always do when a very good and very riveting book nears the end...I slow way down. I read a few pages at a time vs. a few hundred at a time. I think it's my way of prolonging the awesome. In a really pathetic and sad way it's almost like when a book that good ends, you've lost a group of friends you've grown quite accustomed to hanging out with.
I wanna cram in the Talisman and Cuckoo's Nest for the umpteen billionth time before the first snow hits and I have to drop everything and start the Shining.

I meant BrooklynDave...the guy who started the thread. All the best, mal.