Bracket #5: It (1986)

[mae]

It, 1986
http://www.thedarktower.org/gallery/data/510/medium/It_face.jpg

Please vote for It (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(novel)) using the following scale:


5
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1
0
Never read


If you haven't read this book yet, please vote Never Read. Feel free to discuss your votes in this thread.

[webstar1000]

4? This bracket we are doing is among his best work... I loved all these books!

[Ben Staad]

20+ years of me loving this book.

[mae]

4? This bracket we are doing is among his best work... I loved all these books!

Yup, this bracket, the mid-eighties, King was really prolific and in top form.

[Jean]

5+++++++++++++

[Tito_Villa]

5, really enjoyed this one!

[webstar1000]

4? This bracket we are doing is among his best work... I loved all these books!

Yup, this bracket, the mid-eighties, King was really prolific and in top form.

He really was though eh? I liked everything from this era.. in fact I LOVED it.... it made me the fan I am today.

[frik]

Another 5.

sk

[Girlystevedave]

[prepares for the attack from the angry mob]

3.

[Jean]

it is not a mob, Amanda

and we are not angry

we are not attacking anyone, either

: quietly, civilly, refinedly dismembers Amanda :

[mae]

I went with a four. A good novel but I don't know why it's always so highly rated. Same with The Stand.

[Ben Staad]

Refined.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSy4G3A_itJKtJjaW3kGnrwSh1Chdfgi EGapy_wQZfaz8Hx4wriTA


it is not a mob, Amanda

and we are not angry

we are not attacking anyone, either

: quietly, civilly, refinedly dismembers Amanda :

[Jean]

: nods :

precisely, only ursinely so

[divemaster]

4 for me also. I really liked the kids' story and the impending horror of the 17-year cycle. I liked the adult story where they had to revisit things. I didn't care much for certain aspects of the character of Pennywise, and I thought the ending blew chunks. I've read it 3 times and I get much enjoyment in revisiting the characters, as (typical of King) they are extremely well-written, fleshed out and real.

[Jean]

and I thought the ending blew chunks. That is true (if we are talking about the denouement, not the literal ending, as in the last pages)

[divemaster]

Yeah, I'm talking about what happened in the sewers. The reveal of the evil and the, uh, mechanism of defeat.

[Jean]

I agree. For me it doesn't subtract from the book anyway.

[divemaster]

True, and I have not come to bury It, but to praise it. A vote of 4 indicates much enjoyment. King has a way of connecting reader to character that is unsurpassed, in my opinion. The characters in It are some of the best he has written. The issue I have with It (and it only detracts a smidgen), revolves around plotting.

[Heather19]

Absolute 5! Actually I wish I could give it a higher score. Best book of all-time.

[Iwritecode]

5 for me.

Even though I’m an entire generation off, I feel like I could have been friends with the kids in the Losers Club. I really fell in love with them and the final pages of the book were bittersweet.

[WeDealInLead]

mechanism of defeat.

Ha!

I gave it 4.5. It's one of his best but not the best.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

it is not a mob, Amanda

and we are not angry

we are not attacking anyone, either

: quietly, civilly, refinedly dismembers Amanda :

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[JulesH]

Absolute 5! Actually I wish I could give it a higher score. Best book of all-time.

Couldn't agree more. My first and still my favourite. A definite 5!

[mae]

The poll has closed. It has earned a FAS (final average score) of 4.709677419 or 94.19%. It received a rating of 5 with 20 votes.