A review by gayla
It by Stephen King

challenging dark tense slow-paced

1.0

Really horrible and disgusting in pretty much every way. The one female character is horrifically over-sexualized despite being around 12 years old for most of the book. She is the only character to not be introduced in her own perspective - instead, she is introduced by a man that gets immense satisfaction out of abusing her. The scenes where “it” describes how her father felt about her were so sick that I had to stop eating. It gets so bad that he somehow manages to include a completely unnecessary 
child orgy
  scene towards the end.  Insane amounts of racism (not just depicted as a bad thing, but used by the main characters as a comedic device). The entire set-up of the book is basically just an excuse for King to write awful things about every type of minority.
Finally, the end just does not make sense at all. King was definitely high out of his mind when he wrote this. The whole book felt like an excuse for King to write all of his sickest thoughts into a poorly executed story.
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