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IT by: Stephen King was definitely an EXPERIENCE. 🎈🖤This is one of those books that feels like so much more than just a horror story. Between the mystery surrounding Derry, the characters, the friendships, the fear, and everything lurking underneath the surface, I felt like there was always something waiting to be uncovered.Pennywise and the atmosphere of Derry made this such an unsettling reading experience. The way the story explores fear and how it can follow people through different stages of their lives made the book feel even deeper than I expected.The Losers' Club was one of my favorite parts because their friendship brought so much heart into an otherwise terrifying story. Watching them face everything together made me care about their journey so much more.Stephen King definitely knows how to make a setting feel like its own character, and Derry was one place I will NOT be forgetting anytime soon. 😭🎈 Creepy atmosphere🖤 Friendship & loyalty👀 Mystery & suspense😨 Horror📖 A LONG journey that definitely left an impression⭐ Rating: 4.7/5💭 Mood: creepy • emotional • tense • shocked • fascinated • exhausted📖 Would I recommend it? If you're ready for a long, atmospheric horror story that takes its time building its world and characters… absolutely. 🎈
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Scene: Confusing flits between past, present and a thousand different settings. *
Characters: We have the core characters, that we barley get a description of, then we have a thousand extras, that are needless, pointless and so complex - it just doesn't add anything. *
Story: Meh - Could be more clown related considering. There was very little actual horror, and just background fluff with a heavy racist and gross unsubtle sexual tone. *
Recommend?: No. I was so upset by this, I had such high hopes and it just didn't do it for me. It would have been a DNF for me, if I hadn't invested so much time in it. I prefer Kings newer stuff, this has put me off the classics, and it just disappointing.
Essa foi a minha primeira experiência lendo um livro de terror. It é mundialmente famoso, então vou me permitir pular a parte onde escrevo uma breve sinopse do livro.Como o livro aborda uma criatura que ataca majoritariamente crianças, por terem medos mais simples e potentes que adultos, devo dizer que é difícil sentir medo durante a leitura. Acho que o que mais se aproxima desse medo é ver as crianças/os adultos, vinte e sete ano depois, lidando com a percepção de que vão esquecer uns dos outros, e da história que viveram juntos.Acho que o Stephen King acaba utilizando de outros artifícios pra trazer sentimentos que andam de mãos dadas com o medo em outras artes de terror, como o nojo, através de capítulos que focam em coisas que as pessoas, em geral, podem sentir nojo: Tocar em um olho, sangue, morte, o socialmente aceitável e o não aceitável (através de carnificina, racismo e homofobia, ou o sexo entre pré-adolescentes).Esse provavelmente é o livro mais longo que eu já li, e eu vejo muitas avaliações comentando sobre o quanto acham que esse livro deveria ser mais curto. Eu não tenho uma opinião formada sobre isso: não demorou muito para a escrita do King começar a fazer a leitura desse livro mais uma tarefa do que um lazer. Mas de certa forma, talvez essa dorzinha seja uma parte do sentimento que um livro de terror pode buscar. De certa forma, também, por ser um livro tão longo, eu senti o período de vinte e sete anos que a história busca contar. Lembro de, lá nos 80% do livro, eu comentar com um amigo que achava que já estava lendo "It" há mais de um ano. Hoje, quando terminei o livro, me vi buscando no GoodReads quando comecei a leitura, e ela durou quatro meses.Bill, Eddie, Bev, Ben, Stan, Richie e Mike se tornaram presenças rotineiras na minha vida, e eu senti uma conexão semelhante à que construímos com personagens de séries de televisão. Hoje, ao mesmo tempo que eu me senti de certa forma "vitorioso" por ter completado um livro tão longo, senti que houve essa quebra. Me sinto enlutado por pensar que amanhã não saberei mais sobre esses sete personagens. Que a história teve um fim.Eu acho incrível que a história tenha certos simbolismos, como a relação que o King faz sobre "a coisa", e "sexo", o monstro que isso pode se tornar na cabeça de crianças, o medo que se mistura ao desejo. Talvez seja muito esperar que o leitor, no entanto, entenda todos os simbolismos. Da minha parte, a origem de It, a tartaruga e a presença de um terceiro, que supostamente organizou o grupo d'Os Perdedores pareceu ao mesmo tempo repleto de significado, mas oco, por a narrativa não me prover o insumo que eu precisava para entendê-lo. O mesmo acontece com o destino de Audrey e sua resolução. Talvez, também, seja esperar muito, querer que o autor me convença de todas as passagens fantasiosas.No geral, a viagem à Derry foi boa.
I found it to drag in the last third or quarter or so. A lot of time spent thinking "Get on with it". I did like the first two thirds though.
DNF about 110 pages in.I really tried liking this, but the pacing is horrible, the characters all suck and there's a bunch of things that just make me uncomfortable. Barely anything scary happening at all. The only good thing about this is the writing style.
(4.5 stars rounded down) I've always put off reading this book, partially because of its sheer size ( over 1,000 pages) but mainly because it's about a scary clown.There's no doubt this is one of Kings best books, the depth of characters is just incredible. He even fleshes out seemingly insignificant people's stories , like the person that owns the Silver Dollar bar, the sheriff, the pharmacist, I could go on. Everyone in this book feels real, you care about them. That is where King gets you, he makes you care and then does something to them, or makes them do something strange. And you know it's strange because you know them.I knew a little about the story before I started reading, that it's about some children (aged 11) who fight a scary clown. I also knew those children return as adults to fight the clown again. The book starts with what I believe to one of the most famous images we all associate with IT, a small child wearing a yellow raincoat and red wellies chasing a homemade paper boat down the gutters towards the drain. That's literally in the first line of the book. Kings imagination is quite disturbing but when paired with his descriptive expertise, I was genuinely scared at times. I'd read this on my own late at night and find myself starring out the window because I saw something move, or glance to the door at the slightest noise. I think most people will expect this to be scary because the books well known. However, I really didn't expect some of the graphic sex scenes, especially involving 11 year old kids. It really seemed out of left field and I don't see why these were included. If you've not read this yet, be warned.A regular criticism I've had of Stephen King has been that alot of his endings were anticlimactic. I'm really glad to say that I didn't find that the case with IT. The ending felt right and after reading over 1,000 pages to get there and was sorry to say goodbye to Derry and my good friends Bill, Ben, Beverley, Eddie, Mikey, Richie and Stan.4.5 stars because of that one scene!
what a masterpiece it is! The horror of the book awestrucks me. I love how the author describes the whole plot and narrates it beautifully. This book maybe will be my favorite from the author.everyone had something in their life which they used to feared in their childhood, let's call it 'IT', sensible enough. It can be any thing you used to fear in your childhood, in my case, i totally forgot about it, and i don't even find it odd, but what if i say that your fear is real, that the creepy nightmare you had last night is real, it freaks you out, right ? & what if the fear of the childhood don't want you to remember it, grownup can't see it, only children can see IT. so that's what is the story !! the story of childhood friends and their war with their fear.
