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Reading Stephen King's It is an exhausting style to spend a summer

In the summer of 2017, an evil clown took over my life

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Technically, Stephen King's 1986 novel Information technology is a book. Merely as a physical object, it shares a number of characteristics with a cinder block. Carrying i,200 pages of It between Brooklyn and Manhattan every day isn't just a job, it's a workout. It's easy to feel like I t is meant to be this fashion — a stupid-large object you have to live with for weeks on finish, depending on your reading speed and the musculature of your forearms. Perhaps that's considering the volume'south themes are fear, and how difficult it is to milk shake it; violence, and how long it can affect yous; first crushes, and how they never really become away, etc. Stuff you carry around with you. Heavy stuff. Go information technology? I would speculate that Male monarch refused whatsoever meaningful edits to this volume considering he wanted reading It to actually hurt.

It's fundamental monster battles (the offset in 1958, so a reprise in 1985 with the same bandage of characters) accept identify in the summertime, and so with Andrés Muschietti'southward film adaptation of the first half of the volume hitting theaters on September eighth, it seemed appropriate to brand it a summer read. The volume'southward length gave me the semi-poetic option of purposely draping its creeping dread of heatstroke, rejection, and murder over my own July and August. I thought, "What better manner to enjoy a fall horror moving-picture show than past making information technology the succulent reward for being scared all summertime long?" Also, I idea I should keep a diary.

( Spoilers for the 30-yr-one-time volume version of It beneath, patently . )

Calendar week of July 10th

I ordered a paperback copy of It from Amazon.com, and told my editor Tasha Robinson in Slack, "I wanna read Information technology earlier the flick comes out, because I take never read any Stephen Male monarch. And I wanna be like the mom in Donnie Darko." She said, "Ohhhhhh man, It is not the best identify to outset Stephen King," citing a kid orgy and the volume'due south bonkers length. Whatever, Tasha.

I said, "Perfect!!! The perfect summertime job." At this stage of summer, it'due south easy to think that a challenge volition experience good, rosé will never taste bad, feet are impervious to splinters, and decease will never come. The volume arrived in the mail a few days later, and information technology weighed approximately 45 pounds.

Week of July 17th

I read the first 221 pages of It in an empty Starbucks on a Saturday night in Brooklyn. My plan was to read it on a bench, but it was raining.

The mom in Donnie Darko, an intellectual misplaced in Midwestern suburbia and played with daunting coolness by Mary McDonnell, reads It in the groundwork of just one scene, and she reads it at a double remove. She's lounging in a lush garden in an elegant red housecoat, belongings the volume about 3 feet from her face, corners of her mouth turned all the way down. She's also reading It more than 2 years after its release. (The events of Donnie Darko take place in October 1988, though the pic came out in 2001, unfortunately missing the boat on '80s science fiction nostalgia by near 15 years.)

Mary McDonnell is my inspiration and starting point for this task, considering I likewise would like to hold any horrors at arm's length, and I too am reading this book long after its big moment as a best-seller. Unfortunately, It is challenging to hold at arm's length. There is, as I mentioned, the issue of physical weight. And and so there'south the cruelty of a novel explaining on the fifth folio that a six-year-old boy is virtually to die, then backtracking to fill in his personality and relationship with his older brother for x pages before it actually happens. His arm gets ripped off, and he dies either from blood loss or literally from fear.

The start 221 pages of Information technology are an introduction to its setting — a small town in Maine chosen Derry — and to its central cast of seven preteen outcasts, cocky-dubbed the Losers' Club. The kid who gets his arm ripped off is the little blood brother of Bill, the Losers' Club ringleader. They're the crew who realize their town is plagued by a magical clown who kills scores of children. Nosotros come across them outset in 1985 — for the most part, as successful adults who sport the unmistakable marks of trauma. One of them drinks excessively. They all accept amnesia. The lone woman, Beverly, puts up with an abusive married man. Bill is somehow turning all his nightmares into all-time-selling novels.

The coiffure is called dorsum to Derry by Mike, the sole Losers' Social club member who stayed there, driven to serve as librarian and town historian. He's the most knowledgable about the clown curse, and he'south lone in this noesis. I am lonely in the Starbucks on Eastern Parkway. Like me, Mike keeps a diary. Much of the book, I assume from this build-upwards, will be flashbacks to the Losers' time fighting the clown dorsum in the summer of 1958. I should mention that i of the Losers, Stan, is and so agape of the clown that he kills himself rather than returning to Derry to fight information technology.

Every bit an artful annotation, Stephen King describes fear in this book by and large in terms of what information technology smells like — mainly rotting leaves and cellar aroma. Mildew. He uses the word "stench" a lot.

What I underlined: "If fiction and politics ever actually do become interchangeable, I'm going to kill myself, because I won't know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never practise."

This is a annotation to a college professor, written by Bill (the novelist), presumably in defense of Stephen King, the novelist.

Where I stopped: Immediately earlier a chapter called "Bill Denbrough Beats the Devil." He'southward most to do some dangerously fast bike-riding, and that's too much for me.

Mood: Startled (six-year-old'southward arm got ripped off!), embarrassed (alone in a Starbucks), excited, (I call back the last true folio-turner I read was My Little Phony in 2010.)

A footling ridiculous that I didn't realize this kid was a ghost in the trailer.

Week of July 24th

I read pages 221 to 317 of It while lying on Valentino Pier in Ruby-red Claw, Brooklyn. While there, I discovered that the pier would exist hosting a free screening of Donnie Darko in Baronial. Perfect! F or anyone reading this, it is much too late.

Like summer, Stephen Rex's It looks enormous and unending at the beginning. And similar summer, just equally the timeline seems to be sagging into the shape of a chill, droopy hammock forever, it snaps back into identify without warning, knocking my teeth together. This happens as I'chiliad lying on my back on a rock wall past the water, trying to suspend a 45-pound book above my face without pulling a muscle or breaking my nose.

Last calendar week, I was thinking, "Do I really demand detailed descriptions of the outfits of half-dozen men with barely differentiable names?" I am now thinking, "Wait, how many murders so far?" The answer: a lot. In this 90 pages of It, a child named Eddie Cocoran (not the Eddie from the Losers' Club, and that is needlessly confusing. Deplorable, Stephen) is murdered by his stepfather, who I call back we are meant to believe was possessed by Information technology. This is followed by several more graphic descriptions of kid-murders. Too in this section, Mike has his outset see with It, which for him takes the form of a bird with a 60-human foot wingspan instead of the notorious clown. Eddie meets Information technology equally a "leper" who keeps asking him if he wants a blow job. Most of the Losers' Society conspire to build a dam in the forest, which somehow gets them in trouble with a cop. It's revealed that Eddie's asthma is psychosomatic, inflicted on him past his hysterical mother. We are moving along, and my teeth hurt.

Now that I am invested, I'm looking for hints as to how a monster this weird (can be a bird; obsessed with blow jobs) could be defeated by a bunch of xi-year-olds. Hither's i hint, I recollect: when Mike runs from the monster bird (which besides has clown hair on it), he hides briefly in a bolthole in the basis and then jumps out and call back-yells, "Never listen! Never heed stuff similar that! I'thousand not a rabbit!" And that scares the monster away somehow. Hmm. We'll come back to information technology. This doesn't brand sense to me.

My favorite scene in this portion of It is when all the quirky li'l boys and Beverly are sitting by the creek working upward the nerve to tell each other their It stories. At that place'southward a well-written tension between each child wanting to exist heard and each kid also really non wanting their fears to exist confirmed by listening to the others. ("Whatsoever information technology is, I don't desire to hear it, I don't desire things to change, I don't want to be scared.") Sometimes the dread of a change in feeling is worse than the feeling itself.

Anyway, I'm not scared. I'm sitting on a pier, and I decline to drop a book on my face.

What I underlined: "He supposes he would have died for Beak back then, if that had been required; if Neb had asked him, Eddie would only have responded: 'Certain, Large Pecker… yous got a time in mind all the same?'" My 9th grade English teacher still has dominion over my wrists, and I'll probably take to underline foreshadowing this brazen until I am dead.

Where I stopped: Immediately later on Eddie convinces himself that his encounter with It was simply a self-inflicted waking nightmare, concluding, "He had scared himself! What an asshole!"

Mood: Non scared. I'1000 a tough guy.

Week of July 31st

I read pages 317 to 333 of It on a ledge near Greenwood Cemetery , and 333 to 453 in another Starbucks.

Something y'all don't need to know about me is that I live near Greenwood Cemetery, but have never been in information technology. I sometimes walk to the border and sit on a little stretch of concrete across the street at nighttime when I'm "in a mood." The "mood" this time is "90 degrees at night, hands a piddling sticky, brain churning with majestic teen fantasies, everything is electric." It'southward a stupid affectation, but thematically appropriate, so give me a break.

I arrive at the function of It in which Richie and Bill go into Bill'due south expressionless brother's bedroom and flip through an one-time photo anthology that all of a sudden comes alive, biting Bill's finger and drawing blood. The ghost of Bill'south brother then yells at him for sending him out in a rainstorm alone, extremely indirectly causing his death. I am not doing this justice, but this scene is both the scariest and the saddest of the book and so far. Poor Bill. (And, I suppose, poor Stephen King. Bill, as a all-time-selling horror writer and troubled but stalwart hero, is a not-at-all-subtle stand-in for him.)

Okay, so the graveyard was a bad idea. As well chilling! Every bit a solve, I read the adjacent 120 pages of Information technology in the blandest, least-threatening place on Earth: a Starbucks. We're rattling through the rest of the Losers' first experiences with It now, with Richie, Ben, and Beverly telling mostly undistinguishable stories involving chase sequences and fountains of blood that are invisible to adults. Approximately 350 pages into the story, Richie says, "It's a monster. Some kind of monster. Some kind of monster right here in Derry. And it'due south killing kids." Great, that'southward settled.

More importantly, all of the crushes are revealed! Richie, Ben, and Beverly go on a foreign 3-person date to the Aladdin, a theater that plays double features of campy horror movies. Richie'due south crush on Beverly is mild, but Ben's crush on Beverly is supposed to be True Love. She has a True Honey crush on Bill, so in addition to themes of "murder, grief, violence, fear, memory," we volition besides be dealing with the theme of "heartbreak."

Now is probably a good time to indicate out that Stephen King is out of command. There is no mode an editor even glanced at this book before it was published. Information technology took 350 pages for the vii main characters (as well many!) to individually run across the fundamental monster and then collectively admit its existence, and we often took extended breaks to talk about architecture. At that place are divider pages denoting every leap betwixt the 1958 and the 1985 timelines, and each has a melodramatic epigraph from William Carlos Williams, Virgil, a classic rock song, or the 1973 Scorsese movie Mean Streets. They are deeply unnecessary, and a little embarrassing. At this point, I've also been reading an onetime copy of Stephen Rex's On Writing that I stole from a loftier schoolhouse English form, and laughing out loud on almost every page. Here is a piece of advice Stephen King gave to others, in apparent seriousness: "In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to continue the brawl rolling." Hmm.

"But Kaitlyn, I'yard reading 5,000 words of your diary correct now. How can y'all fifty-fifty start in on this guy for lacking self-awareness?" you might say. Well, I never wrote a New York Times best-selling advice volume instructing you to not publish 5,000 words of your diary. So, non the same.

In any instance, Rex's writing is affecting and engrossing, fifty-fifty equally information technology'south egregious and frustrating. I beloved the way he struggles to talk nearly too-big ideas, layering vague, contradictory platitudes well-nigh the nature of retentiveness and fright over each other until in that location'south somehow something rewarding in the latticework. Information technology actually feels remarkably like a diary, or a personal essay. It drove me back to Jia Tolentino'southward recent New Yorker slice about those kinds of essays: "I never got tired of coming across a writerly mode that seemed to exist for no expert reason. I loved watching people try to effigy out if they had something to say." Honestly, who amid united states of america would go back into a one,200-page first draft and make meaningful cuts?

What I underlined: "Some of the stuff in the Bible was even better than the stuff in the horror comics. People getting boiled in oil or hanging themselves like Judas Iscariot; the story about how wicked King Ahaz savage off the tower and all the dogs came and licked up his blood; the mass infant-murders that had accompanied the births of both Moses and Jesus Christ; guys who came out of their graves or flew into the air; soldiers who witched downwardly walls; prophets who saw the future and fought monsters. All of that was in the Bible and every give-and-take of it was truthful."

I like how Stephen King treats religion as popular culture, and treats all pop civilization as part of a fictional extended universe. Like Richie, I was raised Methodist, and like Richie, I found the Bible to exist across nuts from a narrative standpoint.

Where I stopped: Just before Mike's father tells him the story of a deadly fire at "The Black Spot" in 1931. There's been a big wind-up to this ane, and I would prefer to save it for when I believe I can handle it. Leave me alone!

Mood: Everything in my eyeline is steeped in portent — a boy'due south sock, some lady's Levis, most cups of coffee, for sure all clowns. Should I not exist walking over grates? At what point will my fantastic, silly summertime pirouette into a horror testify?

Week of August 7th

I read only a sliver of It — folio 453 to page 516 — on my big week off from work. Deplorable!

Sitting by a muddied, cold swimming pool in my parents' lawn, I'k scrolling through tweets about how our president is threatening a nuclear apocalypse. I'thousand likewise succumbing to the impulse to distract myself from a perilous romantic situation past texting every person in my hometown who might nevertheless owe me an ounce of affection, and asking them to go drunk with me.

I experience like I am going crazy, and It does non assistance. Mike Hanlon'due south begetter tells the story of The Black Spot, a DIY jazz club he ready up with his armed forces friends in a field outside Derry. It was burned down past the Ku Klux Klan with 300 people inside, and the descriptions of the deaths are hideous. King, who I am not feeling generous toward today, takes his fourth dimension particularly when describing how pantyhose or silk slips cook into women's bodies.

Mike's father says he has e'er been confused by the bicycle of violence in Derry, which is "a tearing place to alive in an ordinary year," and sees an eruption of mass decease and child murders every 27 years without it always becoming national news. "It's because of that soil," he hypothesizes. "Information technology seems that bad things, hurtful things, practise right well in the soil of this boondocks. I've thought so once more and again over the years." Before long afterwards this revelation, It kills a two-twelvemonth-old boy by dandy his skull on the edge of a toilet so drowning him. I am fucking ill of this book.

What I underlined: "Beak felt the familiar weight of dread settle around his centre over again — was it something you could become used to so rapidly, then?"

I feel you, Bill.

Where I stopped: It'south surprising to me that I didn't finish later reading about a two-year-former being drowned in a toilet. However, I made it 3 more pages, to the point where the adult Losers look at a police force photograph of a cement retaining wall nigh the site of a recent murder and notice that someone (It, obviously!) wrote "Come Domicile Come up Home Come Home" on it in claret (blood!). I stopped to get a Bud Light Lime out of the refrigerator (killer clowns and nuclear war can't kill my summertime vibe) and regroup, merely instead fell asleep in the corner of my parents' basement, in a bathing suit. The book was tangled in my wet towel and suffered calorie-free water damage.

Mood: Crinkly, resentful.

Week of August 14th

I read page 516 to page 601 of It in my bed, in the heart of the night, afterwards beingness dumped by what could generously exist termed a "summer fling."

Back in the 1985 timeline, the developed Losers are eating lunch at a Chinese restaurant in the new downtown of Derry (which has a big mall). Mike fills them in on all the recent murders in lurid particular, and they have to make up one's mind whether they're going to "stay and fight" It once more or get out quickly before It picks them off ane by ane.

There'due south a lot of give-and-take of "group will" and collective sacrifice in these pages, and the friends say "I love you lot" to each other dozens of times. My knee-jerk reaction is to call this cheesy, just ultimately, if this book is merely near the magic and mystery of lifelong friendships… I guess that's okay with me. Friendship is style more interesting than romance, and both are more interesting than murder. There'southward not a lot of time to feel warm and fuzzy about information technology, though, as the coiffure's post-dejeuner fortune cookies squirt out blood and beetles and eyeballs and pus. Can you imagine for a second what it is like to read about a fortune cookie full of pus in the center of the night, in a bedroom with no working light bulbs, while attempting to eat a piece of strawberry rhubarb pie? This volume is twisted.

Later on luncheon, the crew makes the strange choice to split upwardly for the day and wander around Derry. None of them can recollect the 1958 battle with Information technology at all, so the idea is that this volition jog their memories and that fate volition steer them into "the preconditions for magic." They each meet It in a dissimilar form on these solo wanderings, and they each sense that It is scared of them.

As a side notation, the Pennywise incarnation of It has gotten much weirder since the Losers saw him in 1958, and he really doesn't become for subtlety anymore. He'southward dropping off balloons with notes on them that are not cryptic in the slightest, such equally one that reads "I killed Barbara Starrett! — Pennywise the Clown." (Barbara was the librarian before Mike.) He as well reveals that his name is Bob Gray?

When Information technology hunts down Beverly, It transforms into the witch from Hansel and Gretel, and tricks her into drinking a teacup full of raw sewage. When he runs into Richie, he takes over the body of a giant plastic statue of Paul Bunyan. The 1958 and 1985 timelines are at present stacked in such a fashion that nosotros're going to do rapid cuts dorsum and along between the first showdown and the second, equally they unfold at the same time. I'm way likewise tired to face a shapeshifting monster twice in one night, but that doesn't mean I'g non wired thinking near it.

What I underlined: Richie talking to It: "Fun for me, likewise… The nigh fun of all when nosotros come to take your fucking head off, baby."

I love some stand-up-and-cheer dialogue!

Where I stopped: Quit while you're ahead. Richie is the best character, and whenever his chapters end, that's a good fourth dimension to set the book downwardly for a while. I stopped at the end of his verbal spar with It, which was inspiring and fabricated me experience a lot meliorate than I had an hr earlier.

Mood: Static electricity in my fingers and toes.

Week of August 21st

I read folio 601 to page 774 of It in the backyard of a Brooklyn bar with a single glass of rosé and the lightly sad 2012 Waxahatchee song "Be Good" on repeat.

Picking upward during the same afternoon we left off in, Neb is having the most pleasant mean solar day of anyone. A mysterious child directs him to a secondhand store where his old bike (named Silvery) is sitting in the front window. He buys it! Mike makes him dinner, which is hamburgers with sautéed mushrooms and onions and spinach salad — a dinner I would similar, and which I recollect peradventure I'll make as a little celebration when I finally get to the terminate of this heinously long book. I'm glad I get to read this part (the bicycles and hamburgers part) while sitting outside on a temperate concluding twenty-four hour period of summer, drinking rosé, which, equally I suspected, never tastes bad. Maybe it will all be pleasant from here on out.

Well, just await. None of the Losers are aware that Bill's wife Audra or Beverly'south psychotic married man Tom are following them to Derry, or that It has driven Henry Bowers, their uncomplicated schoolhouse's biggest bully, insane and convinced him to murder them all. To effigy out where Beverly is, Tom beats upward her best friend Kay in a scene that goes on for eight pages. This comes subsequently several earlier, absurdly long passages in which Beverly is beaten by her husband or her male parent, and in that context, it feels more than a niggling flake gross. While Kay (who is barely in the book otherwise) is being thrown around a room, she thinks things like "it felt to her for a moment that her nose had exploded" and "more than pain, so strong it was sickening."

She gives in and tells Tom where Beverly went because he threatens to cut her face off. During the minutes I spend reading this scene, I arrive at the part of summertime where rosé takes on a repulsive, metallic olfactory property and starts to gustatory modality like the combination of every filmy hangover natural language and dry-swallowed Ibuprofen tablet of the last ii months. I feel a little like I'm going to barf.

In the 1958 timeline, the Losers spend several days in the public library, researching how to defeat It past reading books near various mythological monsters. Bill reads off one strategy: "If yous were a Himalayan holy-man, y'all tracked the taelus. The taelus stuck his tongue out. Y'all stuck yours out. You and information technology overlapped tongues and and so you both bit in all the manner then you were sort of stapled together, eye to eye." When the tongues are stapled together, you lot're supposed to tell jokes until the monster laughs, which will kill it. Even to the Losers, this sounds basics. So they decide to sit in a hole and burn down greenish twigs until they showtime hallucinating from the fume. Mike and Richie are the just ones who can stand it, and they end up teleported thousands of years into the past, where they witness It descending to Derry in some kind of spaceship that is not quite a spaceship. Then they both barf.

What I underlined: "Koontz is the worst."

In the book, Koontz is the last name of a police officer, but it made me express joy to imagine that Stephen King was also throwing an unsubtle little jab at paperback-thriller kingpin and possible nemesis Dean Koontz.

Where I stopped: "'Tin we beat It?' Eddie said in a silence. 'A thing like that?' No 1 answered."

In the real globe, as I read the end of this grotesque affiliate, some advertising male child I met on an app walked up to my table and said, "Kaitlyn?" and I said, "Give thanks God!" and closed the book. Thank God.

Mood: This book is sick. I'yard ill. We're all sick. End reading. Cease writing. Finish words.

Week of August 28th

I panic and realize that I have 379 pages of It left to read past the middle of the week. This is how summer ends — not with a bang, but with a slow screw into dread and regret , and a sense of time contracting.

Now I am reading It at work, on the train, in the locker room at my gym, and for many hours at night in the living room with a cup of hot chocolate I am angry almost purchasing while it is supposedly however summer. Why is it so cold in New York? This is a nightmare.

The denouement of Information technology is also a nightmare, offset with a abrupt detour into the story of a child psychopath named Patrick, who suffocates his baby brother, starves animals to death in an abandoned refrigerator, and molests his classmates. The details of his life take upwardly 20 pages or so, all then Beverly can say that she watched It spray him with massive leeches and impale him dorsum in 1958. This is supposed to exist an do in farther jogging everyone'due south memories, and information technology leads into another all-encompassing anecdote most how Henry Bowers and his friends once broke Eddie's arm. In the hospital, back in 1958, he has a showdown with his female parent and reveals that he knows she made up all his illnesses. At this, she has a full-tilt breakdown, admitting in her interior monologue that every tear she cried his entire life was a deliberate, icy manipulation, and and then aimlessly trying to justify this as an act of beloved.

In quick succession in the 1985 timeline: Mike is attacked by the It-possessed Henry Bowers and nearly bleeds to death, a ghost picks up Bowers in a motorcar and drives him to the hotel, where he attacks Eddie and puts his arm out of commission (only like in 1958), and Bill and Beverly have sex in his hotel room. This story is off the rails! Beverly has two orgasms, which is, we find out, a poetic piddling echo of the past. [nail cut] After the starting time battle with It, the Losers are unable to get out of the thoroughly disruptive sewage system underneath Derry. They need to summon their collective power by proving their love for each other, and so Beverly takes off her pants and tells Eddie "You take to put your affair in me." All half dozen of the boys accept… whatever kind of sex is possible between 11-year-olds with Beverly. For special added Love Triangle weirdness, Ben and Nib go terminal. Those final two encounters are described from Beverly'south bespeak of view, euphorically, as she whispers "Testify me how to fly," bites down on her manus, and yells "Aye! Yes! Yes!" Excuse me? The child orgy scene is fun to joke almost, given its applesauce and the impossibility of its inclusion in any adaptation, but it is also so, so much more than nauseating than I could accept imagined.

The scene ends with Beverly deciding not to await down at her legs, because she doesn't want to know if the substance they're covered in is semen or her ain blood.

In the 1985 timeline, during the final confrontation with It in its true class — an enormous spider in a lair full of bones (and Nib's unconscious wife and Beverly's dead husband) — all the Losers are shocked to notice that It is female and meaning. The revelation occurs in all caps, implying that It's gender is supposed to be the near jarring event in a book where several eyeballs debunk, a toddler's head is smashed on a toilet seat, and preteen sex activity activates a magical GPS. It has dozens of eggs, which Ben spends the finale stomping on one by one. Beak and Richie punch It's heart out with their blank hands while Beverly cries on the ground. Okay. Information technology has been disgusting, and a lot of it was bad. (How many times does Stephen King say "modest breasts" in this volume? Tin someone with a Kindle let me know?) I practice not think It does anything intentional or useful with its attempts to poke at racism, homophobia, or sadism, nor exercise I think it's aware of its DNA-level misogyny. I don't think a coherent thesis well-nigh fearfulness, memory, bravery, or trauma ever takes shape.

The terminal pages of Information technology are a floral, ridiculous, over-the-top, delirious elegy for the cadre friendship. The i-2 punch Richie and Beak employ to kill Information technology is described as "the force of memory and desire… the force of beloved and unforgotten babyhood like 1 large wheel." Every bit soon as the fight is over, Mike's diary starts magically erasing itself, and the Losers (minus Eddie, who died when the spider flake his arm off, which I forgot to mention) start forgetting each other's names. Mike's last entry is "I loved you guys, you know. I loved you so much." Reading this ending on a cold night in New York, feeling inexplicable sincere tears gyre down my stupid face up after hours of angrily bucking against the gross, absurd trash-rag It, I was confused. The ending is not well-written. The resolution is many, many pages longer than any reasonable editor would allow, and in the epilogue, while Nib is careening down a hill on his bicycle Silver with his catatonic married woman, hoping a bike ride will revive her (it does), he — the novelist, supposedly the one who is prudent with words — thinks "Be true, be dauntless, stand up. All the residue is darkness." Geez. Why the hell am I crying?

Maybe because this is the kind of sloppy, saccharine ending that works when it comes every bit the moment of exhale at the bottom of a roller coaster y'all've been riding for ane,200 pages and two months. The sewage arrangement of Derry explodes when It dies. Dozens of people are killed on their toilets, reading magazines. Friendship is magic.

What I underlined: "We are leaving Derry, and if this was a story it would exist the last half-dozen pages or so; go ready to put this i up on a shelf and forget information technology."

Wink — Stephen Rex.

Where I stopped: The finish, baby.

Mood: Sleepy and stuffed upwardly. I need to sneeze, merely can't; the sneeze would be a full-body sob if information technology would just come out. I am cold and summer's over. And I am twisted, because I know I will meet this movie the day it comes out.

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/1/16028300/stephen-king-it-movie-adaptation-book-recap-horror-summer

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