The only question in my mind is for anyone coming to this fresh. By the end of the book you will feel like a regular Derry old-timer able to recount tails of its history to any young ‘uns that might happen along. The adults have equally compelling tales, as does the town of Derry itself. As you read through the book what’s impressive is that King holds the attention both to the coming of age tale of the children including their experience of bullying, parental situations and the like as he does with the outright horror of It. The combination of writer and narrator is stunningly powerful at times and the tension ratchets up to extreme levels during the most important encounters. Where he scores highly is the way he almost literally throws himself into the emotion of each of King’s carefully realised situations. I was somehow expecting creepy but Steven Weber is bright and breezy, particularly well-suited to the childhood parts and moves things along at a refreshing pace.
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He doesn’t seem to believe in extras either with even bit part characters like bar men and a taxi driver who only appear fleetingly being given detail and personality of their own. King imbues each of his characters with real depth and personality. Each of them suffers a form of abuse and of course with it being King are not spared from more supernatural horrors.
The book follows the stories of a group of children and how they find each other through the debris of their dysfunctional childhoods and then into their adult lives using a non-linear dual timeline to cover both. King didn’t throw everything but the kitchen sink at it he threw that first and then started ripping up the floor tiles and threw them and everything else besides at it too. More to the point I doubt such a book as this would survive a modern editor’s attentions intact.
It really is something special and one of my personal all-time favourite books though I wonder how people coming fresh to it now might see it. It, the simplest of titles for probably one of the deepest and multi-layered horror books in existence.
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Five of them return, but Stanley Uris commits suicide, rather than face the monster again… You can listen online to free English audiobook “It” by Stephen King on our website.It, the shortest of titles for probably one of the longest books most of us will ever read in this genre. When the murders begin again twenty-seven years later, Mike calls each member of the club and reminds them of their promise, asking them to come back and stop It. It always awakens in twenty-seven-year cycles. The monster It appears in a storm drain after a flood and kills George after his newspaper boat goes into the drain. Bill, the leader of this group of seven kids that will come to be known as the Losers’ Club, suffers the greatest loss among his friends: the first death shown in the novel is his brother, George. The group comprises Bill Denbrough, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, Ben Hanscom, Mike Hanlon, Eddie Kaspbrak, and Stanley Uris.
In the first half of the novel, seven children in Derry become increasingly aware of a monster that is killing children. The novel jumps frequently between past and present, but the structure of the story told in It can be divided into two parts: childhood and adulthood. Stephen King’s 1986 novel It is widely considered to be one of the most frightening stories ever written. While writing short stories he supported himself by teaching and working as a janitor, among other jobs. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in English. Stephen Edwin King is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century.
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