It - Stephen King

I loved this book when I was a kid. I read lots of Stephen King back in my teenage years. This particular book I remember reading over the weekend before my GCSEs began, when I probably should have been revising. IT kept me utterly engrossed, I found it impossible to put down, and it scared the hell out of me. Although I thought that several of King's other books were very good, this one was my favourite back then. This might explain why I kept it when I gave the rest of my King books to my sister (who grew into them just as I grew out of them). I found it recently in a box while I was looking for something else. Astonished as I was to find it, and fully ...  Read the complete review

Warning, not for the faint hearted: :Or those in a hurry for that matter! Aha! Finally! Not being the type to find books, and having lost my library card it has taken me a long time to come across someone in possession of this book! Maxine (a person I have mentioned many a time before)?s mum, Anji is a great fan of Stephen King, so to save myself from the atrocious tastes of my mother I am working my way through her collection. Starting with the best, ?It?. ?To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their hometown; familiar, well ordered for the most part. A good place to live. It was ...  Read the complete review

When I was a lot younger, I read a lot of books. Quality wasn’t important, but reading was, I read everything (even instructions!). My mum tells tales of me being so bored that I would read the backs of Frosties packets. When I got a bit older, while I still read a lot, it was restricted to books – both fiction and non-fiction. During the Eighties, after watching ‘Salems Lot one night on the telly and being totally scared by it, but enjoying it all the same, I decided to see if the book was as good as the film. Well, it wasn’t, but it was quite good, and having run out of authors to read, I decided that this Stephen King bloke ...  Read the complete review

This is an impossibly long account of how a group of children in Derry, Maine, battled, in 1958, the monster ('IT') only to discover that, in 1985, IT had somehow returned. And so it seems must they for another grisly (in every sense of the word) encounter. 'IT' is to gruesomeness what the Sears Roebuck catalog is to things to buy. What's available in depravity and perverse sexuality? Flip through the Stephen King catalog and find out. The book has been praised for its local color. King has been praised as a Maine historian. Considering the color (red) and the history (it's gross), I suspect that some Maine locals will wish ...  Read the complete review

I am a big fan of Stephen King and have read most of his books but this on is by far my favourite. You really felt as though you were in the book, it was one of them that once you came to the end you were quite sad as it should have gone on and on. He writes extremely well and amazes me everytime I read something by him. Some authors, once they have written several books, begin to write the same old stuff - he doesnt. To anyone who hasnt read a Stephen King book you must - he is not gory and horrid, not like Shaun Hutson stuff (err) he writes a really good story that makes a change from love and fluffy stuff! ...  Read the complete review