Aside from the DT books, IT is my absolute fave. For me, it was the way King wrapped my childhood into all those kids. I could relate to each and every one of them. Always the outcast, yet still part of a small tet.
It just speaks to me.
King makes heroes out of the most unlikely people. IT is his best example!
Oh, and it scared the shit out of me and I was 35!!!
The sex scene was odd, I agree.
I am friggin thankful that I never had any IT dreams...I probably would have pee'd the bed.Originally Posted by obscurejude
I did have a DT dream once recently. It was awesome! I was part of the tet.
I agree wholeheartedly!For me, it was the way King wrapped my childhood into all those kids. I could relate to each and every one of them. Always the outcast, yet still part of a small tet.
It just speaks to me.
King makes heroes out of the most unlikely people. IT is his best example!
King captured the oddities and charm of childhood beautifully in this story; and who could be more unlikely heroes than some snot nosed kids?
"The Body" is another great childhood story from King.
Ladysai and Needful I agree completely! The Body is one of my favourite short stories ever, not just from King's work, but any author.
What Darkthoughts said.
i have to agree with everythin thats been said i thought this thread would trash it for bein too long
im rereading it right now only read grey matter the other day where a bangor hydroelectric employee sees a spider with kids in its web in the sewers sound familiar :p
i love this book as has been said one of the few books that actually draws a shiver out of me mostly in the derry interludes where in the middle of a story mike will ask aboot the clown and they always say somethin that gets ma blood runnin cold
i liked the lovecraft influences eg nobody can see it or believe them,henrys hair goin white and the fact hes been drove insane
always wonder if it would be an old one a alien from an another dimension that falls to earth b4 man
That only happened in the movie.
Really?That only happened in the movie.
Hm. I am misremembering.
It's been ages since I read this one.
Time to reread.
Something interesting
So here is a new twist, what does everybody think about the CK declaring himself the eater of worlds in Long Road home series. What are we to assume out of that? Is PennyWise the CK on the Derry level of the tower?
That scared me too!!! I was terrified..
I JUST finished reading It like 5 mins ago and it didn't scare me as much as it made me want to throw up sometimes. I wasn't bothered by the kids having sex either... Bev knew that they had to do it to bring them all back together. I liked the story very much and I was even surprised that they killed It. I thought for sure that Ben would have missed one of the eggs or somethingIt also makes me happy to think that Ben and Bev will finally be together like they should since he loved her best and the longest.
I was shocked at all the things in this story that related to other King stories.. Pennywise sent Christine to come pick Henry up and take him to the Derry Home...
I also thought it ended where it should of. It wouldn't be nice to think that Audra stayed catatonic forever... even though she shouldn't have came I liked her cuz she loved Bill so much... I can't express my relief at Tom dying without even a whole lot of drama.. we just come upon him in the lair lying in a hump... and honestly I think it was a relief to Eddie to have died. I think he was the only one of the ka-tet (if you'll allow) that could not have gone on and been happy. The life that he was living at home was a kind of hell that he hadn't been able to pull himself out of. May sound a lil insensitive but I think he died satisfied. And Jake says that's all we need right?
So overall I was more than satisfied with the book. Worlds better than the movie... Anyone think that Other was supposed to be Sai King Himself?
Dont judge to Quickly
Don't be to sure of that. In DreamCatcher, the main character(while possessed by Mr. Gray, maybe the same kind of Gray of Robert Gray fame from IT) pass the remains of the Derry Standpipe, where they see a monument erected by the Losers Club to the all the children that died. But it has been vandalized with the words "PennyWise Lives!!"I was even surprised that they killed It.
So.....is PennyWise really dead???
errmmmmm... i'd forgotten about that, but also.... the Losers didn't erect a monument in It.. they just went off and forgot about each other, but idk.. and I wondered about Ister Gay too in Dreamcatcher, but he seemed like he was really an alien... maybe it's on another level of the Tower?
IT was awesome. I have no problems with the sex scene but I don't get it. Was it to show that they are all unified? The climax dragged on to much for me. I just wanted to get to the final battle. Otherwise awesome story.
You know I always found it interesting that the monument isn't talked about in IT. Could it be that PennyWise himself put it there? or Mike did and just didnt remember it?
If you remember right IT is an alien as well. IT comes from outerspace or rather the Prim, but there is nothing in Dreamcatcher that would say the aliens in there are not from the Prim also
I really think Dreamcatcher should be considered connected to the Tower.
I guess I just didn't consider It an alien in the same sense as the ones in Dreamcatcher.. it said that It came from outerspace, but It was something that was there in the beginning.. before the universe began right? Because there was It and the Turtle and the Turtle sicked up the universe. and when Richie and Mike had the vision they saw that It didn't really come in a spaceship... I got the idea that It sort of came through a thinny, but I'm not sure that's right either. But I agree that It is from the Prim.. but in that I thought that It was the only of Its kind...
BUT remember the part when it says IT is of a dying race? What's this dying race?
ooooo forgot that part... that would explain why it even had eggs.. that bothered me... but at the same time It suggested that It believed Itself to be alone... that's why it was so afraid of some Other. something else suggested that It may not have died.. when Mike wrote how the Chief Rademacher died.. but then again Derry started to die... which lead me to believe that It was the reason that Derry thrived the way it did...
Epiphany! What if It is more than one you know? Like the Grays in Dreamcatcher and Robert Gray (which is not feminine at all) all share one mind, but can use different bodies and stuff.. like the aliens in Star Trek.. (my bf will be so impressed that i remembered sort of)... It is one but also many... make sense?
I hate to say this for risk of a spoiler from the Long Road Home Comics so I will spoiler alert it.Spoiler:This would definitely add an element to the story as IT is not alone his dying race is the same as the CK.
mmhmmm.... could It maybe be the CK on a balcony of the Tower?? (haha i find that funny since CK was marooned on a balcony) i've just heard that the balconies are supposed to be other alternates...
Big question: What race is The Crimson King and It? My belif is that the Great Old Ones or the were-spiders evolved from human beings but what about CK? He's a shapeshifter. So what is he?
he's the descendant of a were-spider [The Crimson Queen] and a human [Arthur Eld]
Also, Pennywise, Rose Madder and Perse appear to all be of the same race as the CK and CQ.
I might be opening myself up for this one but who is Perse?
Perse is from Duma Key
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