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It by Stephen King

215 reviews

shannonleestrouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Suicide, Racial slurs, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Murder, Violence, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Gore, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Self harm, Animal death, Body shaming, and Emotional abuse

sommarborne's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Cursing, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Incest, Infidelity, Cultural appropriation, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Grief, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Antisemitism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Classism, Homophobia, Drug use, and Rape

babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition

This book highlights all of King's worst traits. There are two many characters, it could have been massively edited down, and the constant racist and homophobic characters and hate crimes are exhausting. I thought the clown would be the one to turn me off from this book. Wow was I wrong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Hate crime, and Racial slurs

karinavenice's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Alcoholism, Racism, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction and Grief

pezinho's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

Whenever I decide to read a book that has a lot of reputation around it, I try to not go in having huge expectations cause more often than not I find the book's legacy is greater than it's actual content. With this book I can understand it's popularity but I think it's far from perfect and there are huge problems with it that I have never seen people talk about.

The beginning really got me, the first 100-150 pages have you so hooked you just don't want to put it down, but then it loses you. That's something that gets repeated a lot through out the book, you'll read an amazing thrilling chapter followed by a tediously long chapter full of exposition and world building, that although necessary is just plain boring.

The strength of the book for me were the characters. The cast has really well developed personalities that bounce well off of each other and make you truly believe they are friends. The chapters of when they are kids ended up being my favorites exactly for that reason.

My least favorite chapters were the ones that dove into the history of Pennywise's haunting of Derry. You would read a very long description of this random horrible event that happened decades ago, wondering what the hell it has to do with the plot, just for the narrator to add at the end of the chapter "oh right, and by the way somebody seen a clown there lol".

The two occasions that did scared me where Ben's first encounter with Pennywise during the snowstorm and Stan's first encounter with It while birdwatching.

It is a product of it's time, being filled with very problematic language, slurs, and straight up messed up scenes that add nothing but shock value (I'm referring to the child s*x scene that King decided to add and I have not seen anybody talk about how messed up it is or criticize it's inclusion, absolutely disgusting).

The ending is bittersweet.

Because their friendship feels so real, to have them slowly forget each other was heartbreaking to read. Considering how much the group had to go through a little happy ending wouldn't hurt

. All and all, although I've enjoyed it, there's way too many problems that I can't overlook so I can't give anything above a 3.5.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Homophobia, and Sexual content

luvxxly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book was absolutely phenomenal.  The only reason it’s not getting a full 5 stars is because of the sheer amount of slurs throughout. There were moments reading when I just couldn’t get past them and I’d say that sort of harmed my reading experience just a bit. But overall, it was a wonderful read and I absolutely loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Violence, Antisemitism, Bullying, Child death, Gore, Racism, Sexual assault, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Racial slurs

cov's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, and Homophobia

tayloralexis9's review

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Hate crime, Bullying, Blood, and Antisemitism

sydgolt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved it. Obviously the gross part when they were kids was vile and imo completely unnecessary. he wanted them to create some deep connection but that felt… wrong. i think that’s when they should’ve made the blood pact. i understand that horror tends to push boundaries to really evoke strong emotions in the readers but this was just not right. 

that being said i absolutely loved reading this book cover to cover. it was so captivating and intricately written, more so than the majority of books i’ve read. stephen king has easily become one of my favorite authors. i loved the characters and their friendships and how strong and unqiue each personality was. sometimes in books they over-develop the main character and under-develop the side characters but everyone got equal effort put into them which i really
appreciated. 

I’m so glad i read this book when i did cuz im starting the year with such a high point. this will definitely be in my top 5 as well!! 

5 stars 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Death, Cursing, Racial slurs, Suicide, Animal death, Violence, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Blood, Child death, Racism, Murder, Fatphobia, and Homophobia

Minor: Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault

theskyefull's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Cycling between chilling and terrifying, this book leaves the reader feeling relieved once it's over. Though King is a master of drawing the perfect picture through words and immersing the reader in his horror, a trope of sexual assault and fat phobia is prevalent in this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child abuse, Blood, Child death, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Fatphobia, Cursing, Stalking, Sexual content, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Bullying, and Body horror

Minor: Body shaming and Suicide

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