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doreengraham | Jul 7, 2009 | 1 vote
I read Stephen King's It last summer, for the first time. It's great summer reading, a good followup to reading Dan Simmons' Summer of Night during summer 2007.

I noticed a couple of things in reading it. Number one, practically ALL my friends read it when they were young, somewhere around 12 or 13 years old. At that age I was pathologically opposed to reading horror on the scale of Stephen King, after an abortive attempt at reading Salem's Lot. It terrified me. I didn't realize until in my 20s that fighting against that horror and working through it is good. REALLY good.

Number two, and leading from that, I think I would have been better off if I had read some horror then, especially It. I mean, yes, I enjoyed a singularly naive childhood, which in some ways (many ways) touches the quality of my life now. And I don't think it's always a good thing to grow up quickly as a child. But a little bit of the experiential information that Stephen King codes into his child characters probably would have helped me a lot.

For instance: the segment where Eddie Kaspbrak is recalling his beating by Henry (Harry?) Bowers, and his epiphany about placebos and the needs of his mother. His instruction, both by himself, the adults, and the circumstances surrounding him is... well it's hard to describe, but reading it, the sense of empowerment and truth is palpable. I think I could have benefited from that as a kid. I spent too much time simply allowing myself to be led along, and then suffered when it came time to effect great changes on my own all at once.

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msouliere | Jun 11, 2009 | 2 vote
Confirmed my fear of clowns. ( )
BaileysAndBooks | May 28, 2009 | 2 vote |
this is the first novel out of school that i read. It was amazing. I still walk past street drains and think of clowns. A must read
raznluke | May 22, 2009 | 1 vote
I was rather disdainful of horror writers and King in particular before I read this - but you really do have to admire both his craftmanship and his portrayal of small town Maine. The man knows how to write. ( )
brianclegg | May 20, 2009 | 1 vote
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Epigraph
"This old town been home long as I remember, This town gonna be here long after I'm gone. East side west side take a close look 'round her, You been down but you're still in my bones." -- The Michael Stanley Band
"Old friend, what are you looking for? After those many years abroad you come With images you tended Under foreign skies Far away from your own land." -- George Seferis
"Out of the blue and into the black." -- Neil Young
Dedication
This book is gratefully dedicated to my children.
My mother and my wife taught me how to be a man. My children taught me how to be free.

Naomi Rachel King, at fourteen;

Joseph Hillstrom King, at twelve;

Owen Philip King, at seven.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists

S.K.
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The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - if it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made out of a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.
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Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.

If there are certain preconditions for the use of magic, then those preconditions will inevitably arrange themselves.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0450411435, Paperback)

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. What was it? Read It and find out...if you dare!

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:15 -0400)

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