IT – Retrospective, well, more like a long rambling series of loosely connected thoughts about IT

A couple of years ago, I decided that I was going to read Stephen King’s novels in publishing order until they bored me. I’ve made it into his 80s output, and I picked up IT, his magnum opus. Reading it in about a month, the 1200 page novel is…a complete and total mess. The first 20% had me hooked, though. It was great. There was this promise and sense of ill-defined danger that worked marvelously well as King jumped us between 1958 and 1985 with this sense of impending doom infecting everyt...