What is IT now? (It - Stephen King)

Member Name: zpyder

Product:	It - Stephen King
Date:	21/01/01 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: very well written, good format, good plot.

Disadvantages: none

IT is my favourite book written by Steven King. IT doesn’t stand for Information Technology; IT is just IT in this book.

The book is set in 2 different times, the now and the then (present and past) it spans the time when a group of children realise that there’s something evil in their hometown (Derry). The book, in my eyes, is about standing up to your fears. The children each face the evil in their most terrifying form, and it shows how they deal with it, standing up to their fears.

IT is an evil force that has lived in the Derry area, eating the occasional human. IT is a shape-shifting creature. IT takes the form of its victim’s worst fear before killing them. IT has a taste for children.

I like it because of how the book travels between the childhood and adulthood of the group of children. At the end, the main character, Bill, thinks of immortality as a wheel, and how everything rolls round back at you. This is how the book goes, as whilst it is describing an event in the past, it would then cut to the future, and you’d see something similar going on.

Steven King gives a feeling of Derry being a dirty, but well populated city/town. I like this is it shows the children living in the trash, but standing out from it. It puts an image in my mind from my past of my childhood when I was 11, and what happened in each of my summer holidays, how they’re special to each and every child.

This book is well worth a read if you like Steven Kings other books. It’s very long, and in the time it takes you to read it you’ll start to get know the characters in the book very well and see what makes them tick.

And one final note, in The Tommy knockers, by Steven King, there’s a reference of someone seeing a clown in a drain, could IT still be alive?

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