Hey, folks! Frizzy J here, moments from finishing a masterpiece of marathon length: Stephen King's IT. My copy has 1153 pages of body matter, which is a lot in a single week.
Stephen King is perhaps the most successful and prolific writer of the last century, known for his brutal horror and grisly images. He has given us The Tommyknockers, Cell, Hearts in Atlantis, 'salem's Lot, Cujo, and like, 45 other books and several accompanying movies, most of which were butchered.
In the town of Derry, every 27 years there is a surge of violent crime, murder, and child disappearances. Many of these children resurface as corpses, but many remain gone. In 1958, seven youngsters came together to fight the supernatural entity responsible, swearing a solemn vow to return if IT ever did. In 1985, as adults with no memories of their horrid triumph, they receive the call to return.
IT spawned two generation of tragically inferior visual representation. Coupled with its length, I would imagine that it would be like pulling teeth to get anyone to read it. However, the story in the book is truly unlike the movies. I made it to page 1084 before deciding that it would not make an excellent show… under the assertion that the original book be the script. However, the boss fights are psychic battles in nature, and that would not translate well to visual representation. And there is the matter of the strange sexual occurrences in the sewer, not to mention the modern cancel-culture and how the gay-bashing and the villain's racism would not be tolerated by modern viewers.
Seriously though, the movies do not do this book justice. Check it out if you don't believe me.
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