I won’t keep this long. I’ll keep it as brief as possible. This is more of an honest review dump immediately after finishing Stephen King’s IT. This is his 22nd book, published in 1986 and has 1,153 pages. And from the beginning to the end, I felt so many things. I gave his book a 5 out of 5 stars and I don’t back away from that rating.
Please enjoy this insight into how I felt and if you have read IT, what did you think of the novel?
I have so many things I want to say about this book. This book is a horror book, but not just on a supernatural level, it is a book about real life horror as well. The seven kids and their environment that they live in has propelled them to become something greater than anything they were expecting. The entire town of Derry is nothing but a shell of what is truly going on underneath the town and how fragile it all is. This book deals with heavy topics, such as abuse, racism, actual murders and harmful things happening to children and teenagers and how adults just seem to not want to give energy to helping or protecting or preserving these children. It’s an example of when you witness something and you don’t do anything about it.
It’s that standby mentality and it just seems like this whole town is just under fog while something bigger is out there after them. And by them, I mean children. The biggest take away from the entire book is that friendship is so important and also faith or destiny or karma is a real thing. It is a real fourth and the seven were meant to be in each other’s lives, or at least to be brought together to take down what is the bigger force at hand. And for them to become adults, and what happens as adults forgetting things, or not having the biggest imagination, or we lose a lot of ourselves, when we become adults. Like the magic of Santa Claus, or the tooth fairy, or believing in our imagination ate it all goes away when we become adults and that is exactly what happens in this book and I like that it comes back around to like no you have to believe that this is real that this is all happening that this happened before at, it happened again. I enjoyed the main seven characters even though we had sadly lost two of them, but to watch their relationships, I will start over with something very interesting, and I kinda hope that even now in 2024 that the survivors still kept in contact in some manner. Their relationship and friendship is too precious to just forget about a second time. I enjoy the villain which is penny wise, a.k.a. IT and I thought that it was a big enough foe for the losers to tackle even though they are also being hunted down by real life boys who are the absolute worst.
Henry is the absolute worst of the three and I he is a scary character because there are real people out there like this who they’ve learned so much pain and hurt and anger from their own parents and that cycle just continues on and for him to be just such a big brooding human fourth to the opposite of a supernatural force is quite interesting to have an a story. There’s just so much I want to say about this book and how it has been away, affected me in a positive way. I am making this document right now because I don’t want to forget a lot of the key details of how you know remembering is so important and documenting experiences and tryouts and losses and failures, and remembering that you cannot make the same mistake twice you cannot change faith or karma or destiny, and that at the end of the day having a support system is very important.
Being human is important, but having people around you who love you and support you is very important.
And at the end of it all that’s what the point of the book is they had each other and for them to come back as adults and just remember it like oh we all had a bond it was very special. It felt like an outside force brought it together, and he brought them together for the second time, and I really enjoyed that I really did. It’s very different compared to the other book that I read by Stephen King, which was the stand, and I can see some similar book story lies but it’s so different. It’s so so different. I have a big respect for Stephen King for his writing.
This book is very dense and intense and violent and scary and sad and it definitely is the book so far that it’s made me feel emotionally attached, and at the moment, I’m shedding tears right now because I think it just really did move me and I did hit me in a way that I was not expecting at all. So I want to say thank you to Stephen king for that and I will gladly enjoy it. Look forward to other books of his that I have on my shelf and I know that they won’t be like it but there’s nothing wrong with that at all. I see the talent that he truly has and spoke with very cool and it got a five out of five from me. I knew it would get that anyway.
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