![]() As already mentioned, this is not simply a horror book, the scary moments are few and far between and all the more powerful for it. ![]() This is not just a horror story, indeed it is less about horror and more about coming of age.Īs always with any book, you should focus on the positives first and foremost. But it is not all fun, there are the bullies, there is the feeling of inadequacy and isolation. ![]() He remembers things vividly and through his words allows us to remember the excitement, the awkwardness, the ability to laugh genuinely and hard at the dumbest of things. I cannot think of many authors who can capture what it was like to be a kid better than King. It’s a book about childhood, in particular the special elements like friendships that seem they will last forever, days and lives that will last forever. They were both good reads but this time around I found issues and weaknesses that I gleefully missed and ignored when I was a teenager. And this was true of It, and also King’s other doorstopper, The Stand. It is always a risk to revisit beloved books decades later - you’ve (hopefully) matured, which has both negatives and positives when it comes to re-reading, and like as not the revisited book is unable to pack the same punch it once did. It was at that time both the biggest - and the scariest - book I’d ever read and it is a book I remember most fondly. It, by Stephen King, was a book that impacted heavily upon my teenage years.
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