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A review by tasi_moutz
It by Stephen King
1.0
I wanted to love this book. I really did. I read other Stephen King classics and absolutely enjoyed them. Misery. Carrie. The Shining. I wanted my experience with It to be the same, because it's one of Kings most popular novels and I love him as a writer and storyteller. But I was disappointed with It.
Fair warning my opinion is extremely biased because unfortunately I hated what I had read so much that I didn't even finish the book. I'm usually so adamant about finishing books and yet I had to divorce this book. I had too.
As usual King had amazing descriptions of the setting, characters, and the scenario. But...it was almost as if I was reading too much of a good thing, because this book had everything that I loved from Kings other stories. But for some reason this book had that times infinity and it became too much for me to handle. Almost too much detail, too much slow burn. It was taking forever for me to get out of chapter one.
There's this one little snippet that I remembered taking forever to read and it was the description of adult Eddie Kaspbrak's medicine cabinet. As a reader I would wonder why this angered me so much and then I remember: it was such a long description. I love details, I love the way authors can spin and weave them to make the pictures clear inside readers heads but this was ridiculous. As a reader we don't alway have to know every little single tiny detail, especially if that detail isn't the biggest part of the story.
This book just wasn't for me. Maybe I read too many of Kings novels and just needed a break or maybe I need to wait and read it at a later time. Maybe one day I'll reread the book and find myself wondering why I hated it so much. But until then, I have to say I was disappointed and bored with the first few chapters of this book.
Fair warning my opinion is extremely biased because unfortunately I hated what I had read so much that I didn't even finish the book. I'm usually so adamant about finishing books and yet I had to divorce this book. I had too.
As usual King had amazing descriptions of the setting, characters, and the scenario. But...it was almost as if I was reading too much of a good thing, because this book had everything that I loved from Kings other stories. But for some reason this book had that times infinity and it became too much for me to handle. Almost too much detail, too much slow burn. It was taking forever for me to get out of chapter one.
There's this one little snippet that I remembered taking forever to read and it was the description of adult Eddie Kaspbrak's medicine cabinet. As a reader I would wonder why this angered me so much and then I remember: it was such a long description. I love details, I love the way authors can spin and weave them to make the pictures clear inside readers heads but this was ridiculous. As a reader we don't alway have to know every little single tiny detail, especially if that detail isn't the biggest part of the story.
This book just wasn't for me. Maybe I read too many of Kings novels and just needed a break or maybe I need to wait and read it at a later time. Maybe one day I'll reread the book and find myself wondering why I hated it so much. But until then, I have to say I was disappointed and bored with the first few chapters of this book.