Paperback, 1214 pages

German language

Published Jan. 1, 1996 by Heyne.

ISBN:
978-3-453-09994-4
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4 stars (230 reviews)

A promise made twenty-eight years ago calls seven adults to reunite in Derry, Maine, where as teenagers they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city's children. Unsure that their Losers Club had vanquished the creature all those years ago, the seven had vowed to return to Derry if IT should ever reappear. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that summer returns as they prepare to do battle with the monster lurking in Derry's sewers once more. ([source][1])

See also:

  • [IT 1/2][2]
  • [IT 2/2][3]

[1]: www.stephenking.com/library/novel/it.html [2]: openlibrary.org/works/OL14916816W/It_1_2 [3]: openlibrary.org/works/OL14916818W/It_2_2

103 editions

It's A Lot

3 stars

Where to start...

IT is strange seeing as the premise is interesting, the characters are compelling, the setting feels very much alive, yet the format is incredibly exhausting and challenging even to experienced readers.

Also the sewer scene was completely unnecessary, frankly, even in a splatterpunk perspective.

Read It (finally)

4 stars

Well. That sure was everything I'd heard it would be. So the thing is I knew every plot point going in. All of them. And King isn't a writer I struggle with reading. The fact of the matter is this is a well written book that is too damn long about a terrible town with a worse clown. And I can appreciate that. And yet the fact remains if I was King's editor I would have told him to cut the scene in the sewers because it's just not that deep.

Read It Again

5 stars

This is the third or fourth time I’ve read this novel over the years, so clearly I like it. I read this very slowly over the course of a year, and I think the pace of my reading got me bogged down in several sections, but I still enjoyed It.

This and The Stand are quintessential King novels, must reads for horror fans.

Review of 'It' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This was way too long, definitely great in parts, but wayyyyyyyyy too long.

After reading and loving Misery and The Shining I have now decided that King is brilliant with smaller self contained narratives - I won't be doing any further research to confirm this.

Also, it was kind of distracting that he made the "horror fiction author" character the cool smart hyper-capable brave leader who sleeps with all the beautiful women and every other character idolises.

I gotta say, I personally loved the ending for its sheer insanity. I haven't seen the movies but I strongly suspect they've changed one specific scene.

Review of 'It' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

On re-reading this for the second time (my first was back in about 2012 when I was still in college), I forgot how many themes are interwoven into the plot. there is definitely parallels between the clown Pennywise, and Satan. The context is even more potent when actually reading about the author's faith. He is a Christian, and this novel demonstrates that.

Review of 'It' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

An okay book, which definitely shows King's leanings on politics & society -- which is funny when you consider some of the casual sexism throughout the plot. Most importantly, did we really need a prepubescent sewer orgy scene?

Review of 'It' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

This had been on my 'to read' shelf for years; with the success of the new movie last year, I figured now was the time.

If you haven't read Stephen King before ... I'm not sure I'd recommend this as my first. Thanks to its general presence on the pop culture stage, the story should be at least vaguely familiar to most, but I think the length could scare some people off.

To be clear, there were few times where I found that I wasn't enjoying the writing, but there's just so much of it to cover -- more than once I wondered if the story couldn't have been just as good (or better) at about 200 fewer pages. Again, none of them stand out as weak or uninteresting, but keeping track of all the kids' backstories, their adult counterparts, the derry backstories, the ancillary bullies and wives ... well …

Review of "It: film tie-in edition of Stephen King's IT" on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Mir hat “Es” von Stephen King richtig gut gefallen! Wer hätte es gedacht? Ich eigentlich nicht, wenn ich ehrlich bin. Vor Ewigkeiten (in den 90ern, ich war lang nicht volljährig..) habe ich den ersten Teil der Verfilmung gesehen und Pennywise und blubberndes Blut aus Waschbecken ist bis heute traumatisch in meiner Erinnerung geblieben. Im Rahmen der “Stephen King November” – Aktion habe ich mich aber doch dafür entschieden, “Es” zu lesen. Weil es einfach DER Klassiker von Stephen King ist.

Wow! Was ein Roman! Er hat mich in vielerlei Hinsicht überrascht und meine Erwartungen (Horror, Horror, Horror) nur teilweise erfüllt. Dennoch eine Warnung: Lest den Roman nicht in der Nacht, wenn ihr allein zu Hause seid. Es könnte sein, dass ihr dann kein Auge mehr zumacht.

Der zweitlängste Roman von Stephen King

“Es” ist ein Monstrum. Auch der Roman selbst. Mit knapp über 1500 Seiten ist es der zweitlängste Roman …

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