Book Review: Stephen King's IT

Short review of a book that I finally finished last year which I'm considering picking up again in light of the new movie which looks fab!!

My Rating - 4 Stars

Well I finally finished IT. IT has been on my "read" shelf for a long time but I had never actually finished IT. When I was 14 or so I obtained a copy of IT just before the summer holidays fully intending on spending most of the holiday laying in my back garden reading. And, for the first two weeks of my six week holiday that's exactly what I did. I piled through IT only stopping to replace my bottles of frozen squash - it was a steamingly hot summer that year, for the UK anyway. I remember exactly whereabouts in the book I stopped reading. There's this scene around halfway through the book where something happens[1] that persuaded me to put it down forever. 

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Fast forward ten or so years and I start my Goodreads account and I'm sitting adding all the books I've ever read. Something makes me add IT. I guess my brain just declared that I had finished it. So without another thought I added it. 

Fast forward another ten ish years and I'm on Goodreads again. I see that someone has made a comment on a review I liked[2] and as often happens I got drawn into reading all the reviews. It was then I realised that I had never actually finished IT. Time to rectify that thought I. So I picked up my e-reader (my battered old paperback copy having disappeared into the mists of time) and lost myself in Derry. 

When I hit the bit that put me off all that time ago I simply read past it. I hate to skim read but in order to finish this book I had to and I'm glad I did. I'm glad I've finally finished IT. It was a story that I was already familiar with having been determined to watch the film since the trailer scared me at the age of 8 - Tim Curry (Pennywise) & Jonathan Brandis (Big Bill) are the best parts of the movie (no contest) - but the book I can categorically say is so much better (quelle surprise). I read the book with the film cast in my head and "remembered" parts of the book being in the film. I'll read IT again one day I'm sure, probably once I've seen the remake which, I have a feeling will never be as good as IT was. 

 This review was originally posted on https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It  on 7th March 2016. Thanks for reading! TTFN. x 

[1] Ben sees Dracula and he (Dracula) has a mouthful of razor blades which he proceeds to close his mouth on with a great Kerucnh .. sorry ... shudder

[2] This one - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78615227?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1