It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes is appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .
Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, emerging again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.
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The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years - of it ever did end - began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain. CHAPTER ONE, AFTER THE FLOOD (1957)
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(@HodderBooks, 10 March 2010, first published 1986, ebook, 1,396 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle, #POPSUGARReadingChallenge, a book set in the 1980's)
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IT is my favourite book, out of the thousands of novel's I've read I love it the most. I've read it multiple times and never tire of it. I haven't read IT for years; my old paperback is almost in tatters. It was a pleasure to return to my favourite place with my favourite people. IT is an incredible book, a magnum opus, fat better than The Stand which is also brilliant. This is one of King's earlier novels and the fact he produced something so good early in his career blows me away. It's a horror novel about a hungry monster that dwells beneath a town and the brave, terrified children who stand against it. It's a novel about love and friendship and facing what scares us the most. It's an incredible book.
