Stephen King, It

I read thIs AS a kido and it absolutely gave me nightmares for months!! I only recently read it again and now realise what an incredible piece of story telling it is. Very scary, Pennywise the clown is worse than freddy krueger in my opinion. The story is very atmospheric, exciting and mostly very scary. On a side note the tv movie was also done really well - totally worth a watch in my opinion. One of Stebun Kings best stories, an absolute treat for everybody.

Alabaster Houses is my debut novel, published June 10, 2011. Kirkus made it an Editor's pick for both their geanrel fiction and their indie fiction categories and it stayed as one of their picks for the entire summer. It also just received the Pinnacle Book Achievement award for Summer Fiction 2011. Now I'm trying to boost the reader reviews on all the sites where it appears, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound, Good Reads. Please help build the buzz and pick me!! Thanks!Sometimes, the least likely encounter changes everything Jane Pepper is a thirty-six year old editor at a small Baltimore press. Until the past year her life has been comfortable and enviable, but when her daughter develops leukemia and then accidentally dies, only Jane knows the reason for the accident. Keeping the secret may cost her her family, her career, and her sanity.Human rights photographer Riva Hakim, the only child of multi-race, multi-faith parents, has survived a volatile, itinerant childhood and loveless marriage to gain international acclaim for her work. Now, at fifty-two, and under contract to write her memoirs, she must put away her camera and find a way to frame the past before she can face the future. But that future is turned upside down the morning she finds a stranger named Jane Pepper on her doorstep.Spanning both sides of the Atlantic, from Washington D.C. to the Canary Islands to Sudan, Alabaster Houses is the story of an unlikely friendship between two women who are both at a critical crossroad in life.

If the 2 part series didnt scare you, this book surely will.

The film doesnt do it justice.

A Must read

I have just finished reading this immense novel for probably the fourth time and each time, I end up reading the last few lines over and over, sitting there with goosebumps all over my body; I can't quite believe - don't want to believe most likely - that the journey King has dragged you through has finally ended. Yes it's a long book and yes there are possibly one or two passages that could have been either shorter or even left out, but no other book I have read, even other King books, has had so much impact on me; your mind is there with the kids at the start and then with their adult selves as they try to put an end to an un-imagininable terror. Character development, sense(s) of time and eras are spot-on and the technique of having a character's thoughts in italics woven into the dialogue all work to create a modern-day - well 25-year-old which is nothing in literature - masterpiece and a book that not only lives long in the memory but jumps into your thoughts without warning and drags you back to the dark places that no adult, let alone child, should ever have to experience for real.

Ive read 5 stephen king books so far, and I have to say this is my favourite. Ive seen the film before, but trust me when I say the book is 100 times better (and scarier!!). Dont let the size put you off, because I find the case with every Stephen King book Ive read he tends to overwrite (not in a bad way) but it means theres not as much daunting information to take in considering the size. This books a real emotional journey, by the end I was almost crying and when I finished and closed the book I felt a real loss and wanted to start all over again. Pennywise is as scarier character as you can get, and the children are so believable you'll find yourself loving every character. Id definitely recommend this as well as the other stephen king books ive read (the stand, the shining, liseys story and misery)!!

It by Stephen Kind is literally terryfying.Great characterization and a superb plot .What really sets apart "IT" from other Stephen King novels is that the novel shows us the dreadest of all our fears which is fear of the Unknown.The shapeshifting entity"IT"first appears as nothing but a mere reflection of its victims' fears but later in the book it is revealed that "IT" too has a form which unfortunately cannot be comprehended by our normal senses of perception. One other interesting fact is that "It"s natural Enemy "the turtle" bears some resemblence to Hindu God of creation "Brahma" just like "the turtle" Brahma is believed to have created the Universe and like "the turtle" he doesn't interfere in mortal affairs.

It by Stephen King has the best-illustrated characters ive ever read about. When the novel is finished, the memory feels like a personal experience instead of "a book I read". Top ten best-written novels. Pre-teen sex is not something I enjoy reading about, though it does (with the mirroring/recurring adult encounters) illustrate the basic, primal bond that was necessary to combat IT.

Stephen King's, 'It' is a great book and fairly scary. I remember reading this book and it is my favourite book besides the dark tower series. This book is not just about horror and terror, its about friendship and looking out for each other and how you should cherish that togetherness feeling and is also one of Stephen Kings best.

Extremely good character descriptions. Nice to have the book in 2 parts: where the main characters are children, and later when they return as adults. The figure of the clown is one of King's most terrifying 'baddies.' Fairly slow start but one of Kings' best and that is saying something...

I am a massive Stephen King fan, and have read about 95% of his books - I think the man is a great storyteller. He's the reason I read, and his epic Dark Tower series is as good as Lord of the Rings if you ask me. If my house was burning down and I had the chance to grab one book, it would be Bag of Bones or IT. I remember taking this book on holiday with me a few years ago and staying into read it while my family went to the beach. IT follows the lives of a group of friends who have been haunted all their lives by IT. IT being their darkest fears, representing itself the majority of the time dressed as a clown. Responsible for the deaths of many young children, the friends reunite later in their lives one last time to attempt to destroy IT for good.This is a book that cements Kings place as THE horror writer. Genuinely frightening, a book that is pretty much hard to put down throughout its 1000 pages. The way King creates this monster terrorising these friends is done expertly. If you read one King book, this should be it.