let's revisit IT

[Lori]

This is the ULTIMATE Stephen King book. I hate clowns and this just helps me to remember why. :)

[Madeline]

I'm a few hundred pages into reading IT now. :) Thus far, it is my second favorite SK book after Misery. Amazing characterizations of all of them!

[Mary]

I was actually thinking about giving The Dark Half a re-read. The movie was on the idiot box the other night and I realized that TDH is one of SK's books that I've only read twice. But, since I've just committed to reading 144 books in 2010 (!!!) I may as well add It to my list.

[Lori]

I read THe Dark Half in one setting. I was working 2nd at the time started it when i got off & just kept reading. Before i knew what had happened it was like 6pm the next night, needless to say i missed work. I guess the movie did the best it could to explain TDH, but i wasn't thrilled with it. But i loved the book.:)

[Mary]

Yes, as usual the movie version wasn't nearly as good. I didn't watch the whole thing though, the ending could've been spectacular! ha ha.

[Lori]

You didn't miss much. :)

[Lori]

************ May Contain Spoilers ************

This is one of King's best ka- tets ever!

William - Big Bill - He has a bad stutter that gets worse when his brother dies. He feels guilty because he's the one that sent him out to play. He becomes the leader of the group, and when he grows up becomes a writer.

Eddie - Eds - A frail kid with asthma. When Henry breaks his arm he finally stands up to his mother, and tells her it wasn't his friends fault. The only presonal hands on adult victim of Pennywise.

Benjamin - Big Ben - Haystack - Who has a knack for building things,helps build the damn better & makes the silver slugs.

Richard - Richie - Trashmouth - He has the bottle like glasses. The most light hearted of the tet, always with a joke or an impersonation.

Stanley - Stan The Man - The only Jewish one among them, he loved birdwatching, and being clean. He committed suicide rather than come back to Derry, even though he's the one that cut all their hands and made the blood oath to return if need be.

Beverly - Bev - The only girl, very pretty, and everyones first crush. The poorest of them all, she has an abusive dad, and growes up to have an abusive husband.

Michael - Mike - The only black member, and the last to be in the ka-tet. The only one who stayed in Derry, to become the librarian, and the watcher. The only one to remember that summer, and all that happened. When everythings said and done, he's still the only one to stay, yet his memory of all that happened fades as well.

Here are a few things i thought were interesting.

Bill's bike being named SILVER.

That IT came from a place called Macroverse, which is like Todash in the DT books.

That IT's mortal enemy is the Turtle, and IT told Bill that the Turtle had died choking on a galaxy or two.

That IT thinks the kids got their power from the Other.

And Dick Hallorn was one of the few survivors of a fire in 1930 at a club called The Black Spot.

IT was the best selling book in 1986.

[Cindydee]

I read this a few months ago, and i was going to give it a 3 star rating when i added it on to this site a few hours ago. Instead, I decided I should probably re read it first. Reading the above comment reminds me that I'm not giving it enough credit. I think there were several things I didn't like about IT, but the characters are fantastic, in my opinion.

[Lori]

I couldn't agree more. The best set of characters ever, next to Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, & Oy. I'm always happy when someone tells me their reading IT. If i had time i'd reread it as well.

[Amy]

I read 'It' in high school and although I remembered most of it, I have been pleasantly surprised to re-discover parts I had forgotten. This is one of King's best books.

[Becky]

We're discussing IT now as a group: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_... :)