{"id":7041,"date":"2025-11-20T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:29:24","slug":"book-review-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=7041","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It,<\/em> by Stephen King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This book, with the title that has total disregard for SEO, is among Stephen King\u2019s most popular, but I didn\u2019t love it. I liked it. I liked parts of it. But as a whole, it\u2019s meh for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For one, I don\u2019t think clowns are scary. They may be creepy, but I\u2019d rather see a clown in a storm drain than a spider. You can talk to a clown\u00a0and maybe reason with the jokester. A spider? They are silent spies of the devil! They don\u2019t talk. They don\u2019t bark. They just\u2026exist. They all pretend they don\u2019t understand English, except for Charlotte and I\u2019m wondering if the words she spelled out in the pig pen were actually AI generated. How else do you explain the weird phrasing of, \u201cSome Pig\u201d? I ran Charlotte\u2019s oeuvre through the AI detector and I think they should rename the book ChatGPT\u2019s Web<\/em>. Busted!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to clowns. They\u2019re not scary. Pennywise can, and does, take the shape of a spider at times (I think\u2026it\u2019s been a while since I read this). And if the whole book was him as a spider, I would like the book more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scary scenes in the book are actually kind of silly\u2026maybe even stupid. I don\u2019t want to spoil anything for those who haven\u2019t read the book, but don\u2019t expect Exorcist-level frights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do like the non-scary parts. Stephen King has a knack for creating interesting characters and watching the kids (and their adult selves) interact is great. But it starts to drag around page 600.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one of King\u2019s longest books, and as much as I liked the characters, the overall story isn\u2019t really worthy of all 1,000 pages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the out-of-left-field sex scene between the kids that everyone who read the book loves to mention. Why did King include this scene? Either he was trying to say something poignant about the loss of innocence and overstepped, or he didn\u2019t know how to end the story and threw a dart at the ol\u2019 idea board and it landed on, \u201cSex party.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of people love this book, and I can kinda see why. I\u2019m just not a huge fan. I love a lot of King\u2019s other works, but this isn\u2019t a top tier entry in his mountain of books. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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