re: Stephen King's IT....(Update) I take back what I said, book is fantastic

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It's my favorite book ever written. I've read it cover to cover at least 6 times in my life.

But I'm a huge King fan boy, so....

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IT's my favorite King novel, with The Stand coming in a close second.

I'm re-reading it for the 5th time right now.


For those of you complaining about the length of his descriptions of things, I wonder how old you are. My guess is that you're in the millennial range, with the attention span of a gnat. You're the TLDR generation and I pity you.

King's use of description to set up the visceral sense of the scene it what MAKES his stories scary. Anyone can say "a clown in a gutter grabbed a kids arm and tore it off". The way King takes the time to set up Georgie's death, flashing back to Bill helping him make the boat, Georgie's description as the typical annoying little brother who's cute and lovable ties you emotionally to his fate. Then the slow approach to the gutter, with a vivid picture of the swollen Kenduskeag and Penobscott rivers being fed by the deluge over Derry. The boat goes down the drain, and then something as seemingly innocent and friendly as a clown appears.

Sorry if his style "bores you", but the time he takes to build his world, with backstories for minor characters and detailed descriptions of places and things that happened in the past makes it all the more real, and all the more terrifying.

If it's too boring might I suggest the Twilight series?