Book Review: Stephen King's IT

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1495446692767","data":"Those familiar with the work of Stephen King and his life should already know that King used to write his stories to deal with his fears. King, who has suffered addictions for a large part of his adult life, wrote his scary and macabre stories in order to face his fear, it was his way of dealing with the things that terrified him the most. This lead to him writing truly terrifying stories ever put on print, but I digress, so here's a review for, in my opinion, his greatest horror work ever. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1495529838274","data":"5923fe05e94a6"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1495529840116","data":"King might be extremely popular but he is not without faults, and IT as a book is a great example of both his greatest strengths and weaknesses. While on one hand, King went out of his way to decide the kind of monster he wanted to use for the book after questioning people and himself, 'What scared children the most?', on the other hand, the book is 1200 pages long, filled with overlong exposition and long periods of discussion and world building. This can get quite annoying because the number of characters and the number of pages devoted to seemingly insignificant things can be greatly reduced, and yet King takes his time with the characters and the story. <\/p>Set over a period of multiple years, with a monster that takes the shape of whatever it's victim fears the most, IT is a book that takes some of the most innocent time of your life, your childhood, and adds horror to it. In some editions, the ominous warning at the start of the book, where it advises readers to read the book in a well-lit room, does a fantastic job in setting the tone without even actually getting to the prose itself. <\/p>The prose, on the other hand, is quite conservative with how it handles it's titular character's appearance, but when the horror elements do kick in, King's style proves that there is no equal to him in writing horror. The long gaps between the horror elements add to the feeling of foreboding and you are left anticipating for the monster to be lurking just around the corner on the next page. It makes for a wonderful reading experience, and of course, it will chill you to the bone. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1495530572265","data":"5923fe1dd1d82"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1495530574210","data":"If you think the above image is funny, try reading the book or watching the movie, or wait for the 2017 adaptation to be released. <\/i><\/p>This book is a cultural phenomenon, to say the least. A fresh new generation of kids across the world developed a fear of clowns after reading this book, and I, when I first read it, was a teenager with a penchant for horror movies and stories. IT was the book that made me think I was done with horror for a good while, the book is terrifying, intense and it will scare you, no matter who you are. <\/p>King is king in writing about fears, and this book cemented him as a legend of Horror fiction. I can only think of H.P. Lovecraft, thinking about who could possibly be superior to King's writing style. Lovecraft insipred an entire mythos, and his works are twisted enough to make you feel you are going insane yourself, but that is a story for another time. <\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2qfaj4q\" target=\"_blank\"> Click here<\/a> to buy Stephen King's IT! <\/p>"}]

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