Written by Stephen King Indulge in 1104 pages Rated 4.5/5.0, based on 871 reviews. Buy from Amazon: New price: $4.48 Used price: $0.46

Memorable characters...
Rating: 4/5
King weaves another tale of terror that follows children into their adulthood. A beast that haunts a tight-knit group of kids and returns years later to reap vengence against the adults they have become. The character development is awesome. It's as if I know these people. The storyline is great...until the end. I'll leave it at that. No spoilers here. Almost a 5 star.

King Never Disappoints
Rating: 5/5
Well, every author disappoints at SOME point in their career, but this is not that point for author Stephen King. Though the title is simply one word, it conveys all the eerie simplicity of the book itself.

The story jumps between contemporary times (1985, contemporary when the book was written and published) and the horrifying experiences of seven friends' childhoods, in the summer of 1958. While most books of this intensity cover spans of 20 years in epic form, this book takes place over the course of just three months.

Seven 11-year-old kids battle the unspeakable evil that has permeated their small Maine town of Derry. King captures the creepy feel of small New England towns in a way that grips the reader, making it impossible to put the book down even as the descriptions grow grisly and nightmarish. These seven youngsters are brought together in adulthood to repeat their fantastic journey and defeat that same evil once and for all, if they can recapture the magic of childhood. A task every adult in the world attempts at least once.

Most of Stephen King's fans know he writes himself into almost every story. Some part of him finds its way into the characters and places, giving the reader a glimpse of the man behind the book. In "It", we see not only a glimpse, but an entire novel of King himself, played out in the twists and turns of his own fantasies. This fact makes the book all the more haunting, chilling, and terrifying.

While I would recommend this to anyone who wants a good long scare (it takes a solid week to read through, as it DOES jump around a bit), I would not recommend this or any other King novel to those young enough to still think of that favorite four-letter-word as "the f-word". Like all his other works, It does not scrimp on the foul language, nor does it balk at concepts no child should entertain (physical and sexual abuse, kids smoking, grisly deaths, not to mention the psychological ramifications of a demonic clown that can change into any monster it wants).

Classic Stephen King
Rating: 5/5
After The Stand, this is probably King's best novel. It's a classic masterpiece and still one of my favorites after all these years.

It's a great read
Rating: 5/5
It is probably one of Stephen King's longest books. It's satisfyingly short title, draws the reader in. The book mostly focuses on all of our most nurtured fears, clowns.
The book begins with meeting Pennywise, the dancing clown, and thus finding out exactly how evil It is. The story tells us about a group of kids who joined together as friends to play and later to stop the evil destroying the small New England town.
The book was a page-turner and never stopped being interesting. The fact of how startling it was kept me turning the pages. It was surprising how cruel Stephen King was to all the characters. It's characters seemed so real. It's villain was interesting because It's so evil. The hero and heroine have good motives and are interesting as the villain. Each of the characters seemed full of detail and the descriptions of the characters seemed to make them completely real.
The story is split into parts about when they were in their childhood and when they were called back in the town 27 years later. The chapters never seemed too long or too short.
I think this book was a real page-turner and taught me not too mess with anything that kills children.