How can I get through this book? I'm scared!

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Someone please help me. I've started and had to stop reading this book 3 times now because I have nightmares and imagine Pennywise jumping out of my closest at me in the middle of the night. I saw the movie when I was a kid (a kid!), and it terrified me (I question my parents' judgement on that one). I want to read it so badly because it's a classic and there's supposed to be a new movie version in the near future.

I'm sure everyone will tell me to put on my big girl panties and suck it up. I just wanted to whine about it first. Now I'm done.
 
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...oh hell, Pennywise is a push-over....

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Robert Gray said:
The only thing I can promise you is that the book is far more uplifting than frightening. :) Stand and brave the terrors and you will be richer for it. I don't even consider the book a horror tale, but rather a story about being young, growing up, and finding childhood again. The monsters kind of pale beside that.
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You say true
 
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All you need do is fill a bottle with a mix of vinegar and water, a spray bottle, and anything comes creeping around, you blast them with it, they melt, believe me you!
And then! It will be all you can do NOT TO go out busting monsters and the like. You can be a superhero. No problemo. White vinegar.
 
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Flat Matt said:
I'm ashamed to admit that I've never read IT.

The trouble is, I've seen the film so many times - and quite recently, too. I need my brain to forget the film before I can read it, and I don't see that happening any time soon.
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IT the movie is horrible. I hated it. We're talking that miniseries thing, yes? With John Boy and all? All they did was stand around in groups and look at each other with fear and then one by one we had to watch them race out of a room. Over and over and over again.
 
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Dana Jean said:
IT the movie is horrible. I hated it. We're talking that miniseries thing, yes? With John Boy and all? All they did was stand around in groups and look at each other with fear and then one by one we had to watch them race out of a room. Over and over and over again.
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Don't forget tons of mind-numb sentimental schlock. And Harry Anderson's porn 'stache.
 
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Dana Jean said:
IT the movie is horrible. I hated it. We're talking that miniseries thing, yes? With John Boy and all? All they did was stand around in groups and look at each other with fear and then one by one we had to watch them race out of a room. Over and over and over again.
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The original IT movie was a B-movie. The only reason I like it at all is in being reminded of the story.
 
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allthingseventual said:
Someone please help me. I've started and had to stop reading this book 3 times now because I have nightmares and imagine Pennywise jumping out of my closest at me in the middle of the night. I saw the movie when I was a kid (a kid!), and it terrified me (I question my parents' judgement on that one). I want to read it so badly because it's a classic and there's supposed to be a new movie version in the near future.

I'm sure everyone will tell me to put on my big girl panties and suck it up. I just wanted to whine about it first. Now I'm done.
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You don't have to read it (IT) ever, if you mustn't. I won't encourage a person to believe that he must expose himself to anything which is harmful in any way. I think, for most, the novel IT is not harmful. I also don't presume to know everything. I say wait to try reading it until such time as you realize you can handle reading the book.
 
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Flat Matt said:
I'm ashamed to admit that I've never read IT.

The trouble is, I've seen the film so many times - and quite recently, too. I need my brain to forget the film before I can read it, and I don't see that happening any time soon.
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Dear God..... as a fellow Brit, "step away from the movie" and READ THE BOOK I implore you!!! Seriously read it. Read it, please.
 
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