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Seven children, age 11, band together after they realize a creature they call It is murdering children in the town of Derry, Maine. The kids are reunited as adults when children once again begin being murdered. The book jumps around a lot between the two timelines. I like Stephen King as a writer and parts of this book were very creepy. My main problem was the book got very repetitive. We have to go through each child's individual confrontation with It and then go through their individual confro
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Well, this was definitely different now that it was when I was 15 in 1986. I imagine I missed a lot of the details back then. I really enjoyed the tale of friendship and coming of age. I also enjoyed the horror of it, though sh*t got a little weird, I think it went Greek mythology on me with chud and The Turtle, what the...? Overall very good but a little long and weird as it twisted to the end. I read it as part of a read along on Litsy, which made it more interesting. It was helpful to hear wh
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5 Stars
#1 Fiction read of 2018
#1 Fiction read of 2018
Jan 16, 2012
Nanosynergy
marked it as to-read
Jan 31, 2013
Kim DeCina
marked it as to-read
Jun 27, 2013
Tanya
marked it as to-read
Apr 01, 2018
Brittany Gillis
rated it
it was ok
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fantasy,
stand-alones,
books-made-into-movies,
2018-read
Apr 02, 2018
Terri
marked it as retro-chapter
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horror-fiction,
thriller-stephen-king
Apr 30, 2020
Anna Din
marked it as to-read
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