“A landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times) Stephen King’s number-one national best seller about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It.
Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real.
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made 28 years ago calls them to reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now children are being murdered again, and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers.
Readers and listeners of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It.
Got to say this is hands down my favorite SK book of all time Grew up watching the miniseries and finally decided to read the book. Got to say this is hands down my favorite SK book of all time, if not my favorite book in general. There’s a lot of information in this book about Derry’s history that wasn’t really in the miniseries, it does help bloat the book but I honestly found the history interesting so was never really bothered by it. In fact I felt knowing the town’s history and seeing all of the violence and carnage Pennywise helped perpetuate…
takes their greatest nightmares and turns them against each child There’s an evil lurking in Derry, Maine. It lurks in the storm drains and the sewers. The scary part? The entire town is affected by evil that lives under the city wreaking its havoc upon the town, but only the children can see It. Seven outcasts form a bond in order to defeat It, deeming themselves The Loser’s Club. It, being a creature from out of this world, takes their greatest nightmares and turns them against each child. Thinking they defeated It as children, they lead a life outside of…
Even better the second time…a quarter of a century later. When I was on a school field trip in the seventh grade, I took Stephen King’s “IT” with me to read. The trip was going to be two days in Virginia, and was an example of staying overnight on a school trip. It should have been an adventure. The trip was frankly a waste, but the book was sublime.Â