It - Stephen King

[edgy abyss]

BR duration: <t:1688169600:D> - <t:1693440000:D>
BR leader: @spring harness
Link: #buddy-reads message

[vague rain]

Oh boyyyy here we go

[empty pumice]

I am so excited for this!!!

[vague rain]

Same 😍

[surreal acorn]

I’m so excited!!

I haven’t read this book yet, somehow

I’ve read like every Stephen king book but this one lol

[empty pumice]

Well this is my first Stephen King, soooooo I have high expectations.

[viscid sonnet]

yessss, I want to read it again

[spring harness]

woohoo! happy to have everyone apart of this!

lots of people joined this one and the number keeps growing! I'll have questions and whatnot posted when it's closer to the start date. super hyped!

[vague rain]

Can't wait!

[spring harness]

feel free to share what your copy looks like if you're reading a physical book!

[surreal acorn]

I need to get a new one

My current copy is ripped

[vague rain]

I'm gonna be doing the ebook this time around, cause I don't wanna hold the heavy book again lol

[drowsy cloud]

super excited for this!! I stg obc has turned me into such a Stephen King fanboy

[spring harness]

i love it! you're 3/3 for me now too for BR! lol

[surreal acorn]

Lol, welcome to the club

[drowsy cloud]

omg wait yeah! what can i say, the books youve been choosing are just right up my alley ~~we dont talk about go ask alice though ~~

[surreal acorn]

How was Go Ask Alice?

[edgy talon]

https://tenor.com/view/munsonated-gif-26549638

nobody liked it in the br

we had fun talking about it though

[surreal acorn]

O_o

[surreal acorn]

It sounds interesting though

[surreal acorn]

I nearly bought this edition shown in the announcement

For 50 dollars

[edgy talon]

https://tenor.com/view/spill-shocked-choke-what-gif-13151226

[surreal acorn]

I'm kind of a sucker for collectable items

[edgy talon]

i am to i get special editions but like they have to be pretty and preferably signed

[surreal acorn]

I only have one signed book

I need a Stephen King signed copy

OH WAIT

I have the perfect scheme

I bring my First Edition copy of The Bachman Books to Stephen King's house and force him to sign it

And get him to sign the first page of Rage

(who cares about the legal trouble of breaking into his house because I AM HIS NUMBER ONE FAN (hehehe Misery reference) because I'll have a signed King book)

[drowsy cloud]

it was interesting in the sense that it was absolutely insane honestly if you're looking for smth to read that'll make you cackle at how stupid it is its absolutely perfect, its laugh out loud funny but not on purpose

[drowsy cloud]

absolutely flawless plan

[surreal acorn]

Isn't it about a girl who runs away cuz of drug addiction O_o

I'm guessing the writing was bad

[surreal acorn]

It'll work so well

Forget that I also have to cross a border

[drowsy cloud]

yeah without the context of the writing itself it sounds bad that i said its laugh out loud funny, the writing is horrifically bad nd unrealistic, like ||at one point her friend nd her run away like. cross country. nd set up a small business, it somehow goes well, nd then they just up and go back home for some reason?|| its genuinely just another case of an adult trying to write a teenager nd failing miserably nd the dark subject matter makes it a case of "if i dont laugh at this ill cry nd get very angry"

[surreal acorn]

lol

It does sound ridiculous now

[drowsy cloud]

it rly is, the br was super fun but the book was defo not it if youve got an afternoon and some braincells to kill id say go for it

[spring harness]

trying to clear off any books I have remaining to finish for BR to commit my time to this since it's a choooonk of a book 🤡

[vague rain]

Yessss hehehe I cleared off mine too so I'm ready 😁

[drowsy cloud]

hahaha same im in the process of trying to get stuff finished so I can read this as close to the beginning as I can, just so I can take it slow nd not have to rush this masterpiece

[spring harness]

I think I have it for 2 months? of course I'll check in with everyone if there needs to be an extension

[vague rain]

I hope I can finish in 2 months 🤣

[spring harness]

I hope I can to lol I forget how long it took me the 1st time I read it

it took about a month. just checked my SG logs lol

[vague rain]

That's awesome! I'm gonna definitely be reading other books along with it too, cause I feel like only reading that will make my brain hurt 🤣

[drowsy cloud]

they have this in my local library so now for the struggle of "do i read this 1k+ page book physically or do i listen to the audiobook"

as much as id love to read it physically i really am considering just getting the audiobook, i dont wanna burn myself out like i accidentally almost did with the stand

[wraith tundra]

I want to read this book so badly but like the size

[vague rain]

I know it sucks lol but I think you could do it! Just a little at a time

[surreal acorn]

I just bought a better edition today

My old one was ripped and torn from when my brother read it

[edgy talon]

The 50 dollar one?

[surreal acorn]

I wish. . .

I’ll send a pic

[surreal acorn]

@edgy talon

My old edition which is sad and tattered

It’s nearly completely defaced

[spring harness]

trust me, that's what kept me away from reading it for so long before. it quickly became my favorite book and still remains. there's absolutely no pressure! I started with a 2 month time line to finish and whoever needs more I can extend the date no problem!

[spring harness]

that's the edition I read for the 1st time!

[spring harness]

currently at the pool- I'll get starting discussion questions posted up in a bit

[vague rain]

I'm gonna be starting this soon!

Also @spring harness I noticed it said you're currently reading too many damn books, I feel that 🤣

That's gonna be me soon

[surreal acorn]

I'm gonna start when I finish The Road!

[drowsy cloud]

glad its a general consensus because me too

[spring harness]

alrighty guys!! apologize for the late posting for discussion questions as this has already begun! busy weekend with softball tournaments but im focused now!!

gooood morning @muted dust @tired linden @drowsy cloud @slim ivy @wraith tundra @viscid sonnet @hazy cosmos @halcyon estuary @empty trench @edgy talon @vague rain @rigid jasper @surreal acorn @empty pumice @frosty zealot @river zenith @Loujainsaleh#5430

please ping me if you need me/need me to see something, otherwise i might miss it
here are some starting questions for ya! happy to have you here with us 🤡

-is this your first time reading It?
-have you seen any of the movies/mini series?
-do you have any expectations?
-what made you choose this BR?

[viscid sonnet]

• Nope I already read it once
• yes, I saw the movies and the mini series
• I don't know... I think it's scarier than I remember because I read it like 4 or 5 years ago
• I wanted to read IT again lately, so this is a perfect occasion

[vague rain]

-is this your first time reading It?
It'll be my 2nd time!

-have you seen any of the movies/mini series?
Yep I've seen all of them

-do you have any expectations?
Maybe I'll pick up on some things I missed last time since the book is huge lol

-what made you choose this BR?
I wanted to reread it and I love Stephen King books!

[edgy talon]

• I did begin it a month ago and got like 1/3 of the way through but then i saw your br request and decided to start over
• I did see the movie but i dont remeber any of it
• Just to be scary since its a horror
• I was going to read the book anyway

[spring harness]

-is this your first time reading It?
no, this will be my 2nd time

-have you seen any of the movies/mini series?
multiple times, both are within my top 5

-do you have any expectations?
im not sure, always a possibility of catching something i didn't before .. i might skip the history of Derry chunks this time as i read the entire thing my 1st time .. idk yet though

-what made you choose this BR?
this is my absolute favorite book ive ever read. ive been itching for a visit back to Derry and summertime just made the vibes feel stronger and wanted to invite a crew along with me!

[rigid jasper]

Yes it is my first time reading it
I have seen the movies! I saw the first one and the second one! I thought if the movies were good then the book has to be to right?
Yes, I do… Uhhh to be some what like the movie…
The fact that I had already seen the movie and it was good.

[spring harness]

I saw you were reading it prior and was hoping you'd join in! 💙

[surreal acorn]

-Yes!
-No, but I will watch them after
-I expect a lot of strangeness. The only thing I know about is “that scene” and Pennywise and the infamous Georgey scene.
-I just had to read IT, I’ve already read around 35 Stephen King books and somehow have not read IT

[spring harness]

dang I should have asked if people are familiar with that scene or not .. I don't wana press on it too much but I do have some theories about why it was written at all to either be discussed privately or openly (with spoiler blocking of course) I'll read the room when that comes up lol

[hazy cosmos]

• Yes!
• Nope, too scared
• I expect It to give me goosebumps and shivers
• Because the movie was so hyped up! My friends even set up a watch party before because they liked it a lot. I'm not a horror movie enjoyer, so I'll just read the written version

[spring harness]

I excited for all the 1st time readers here! hope it exceeds your expectations and more!

[muted dust]

1. yep first time
2. ive seen the 2017 movie
3. not really. im hoping its good!
4. i dont really remember much of the movie other than the clown. i have a goal to read all of stephen kings books so i might as well join in on this and knock out It!

[spring harness]

hoping to start this tonight or pool side tomorrow

[drowsy cloud]

• yep, it is!!
• I have! I've seen IT chapter 1 and 2 nd loved them both nd I've seen some of the mini series nd wasn't super impressed it was still cool though. the older movie is alright too, I just think I love the graphics of the new movies a lot!
• mostly just that I'm gonna enjoy this! I've enjoyed all the other King books I've read so far, so I expect this is gonna be enjoyable too
• Well first of all its a nyx br, I had to keep up my streak also it's just good motivation to read these books. I enjoy talking about them a lot too nd hearing about people's own interpretations on stuff. I've been saying I'm gonna read this for like 4 years now I think? nd I've just never done it or got round to it

[iron needle]

• It's my first time reading it (sounds like a bad pun)
• nope
• I know nothing about it being a classic and having something to do jokers (it still sounds like a pun and it's annoying)
• The thick book that's been sitting the top shelf of my table for months

[vague rain]

I've started a couple days ago and still on Part 1

There is just so much going on 🤣

[drowsy cloud]

I'm gonna power through a couple other brs that are slightly shorter nd then get started on this as soon as I get my monthly credit on audible

might end up pushing some other brs out the way for this one though HAHAHA

I've not read a Stephen King book for like 2 whole books now im getting withdrawal already ~~I finished the shining on like. thursday/Friday I think I have a problem ~~

[vague rain]

Hahaha yeah I'm alternating between this book and the rest of my brs

[spring harness]

I cam finally fully commit as I finished a Br Yesterday so I started this a tiiiny bit last night.
it's hard to explain my feelings when reading It .. it's like Xmas morning when you're a kid .. idk .. this did weird things to me lol

[vague rain]

Lol yeah same there's just so much going on 🤣

[spring harness]

I'm almost finished part 1

[spring harness]

ch 1-2
|| that was all so rough to read .. I felt more of a connection between Bill and Georgie from the few pages than I did from the movies .. the scene with Adrien and Don was rough too .. people suck. i loved the Shawshank reference though from the clever bastard 🤣 ||

one thing i did notice-this is a spoiler for if you HAD READ THIS BEFORE if this is your 1st time don't read spoilers- || when Georgie went down the basement for the paraffin and whatnot, he sees a box of car wax I think with a turtle on it and questions where he's seen it before-does this have anything to do with the acid trip of the ending? ||

[hazy cosmos]

currently in the middle of ch 3 and ||the amount of characters mentioned is insane im not sure i'll be able to remember everyone ||

[spring harness]

there're a lot! I feel as the story goes it'll be better following/remembering

[spring harness]

ch 3
|| i forgot how rough this one can get at tines .. Beverly's phone call got to me the most but that empowering feeling she must have had right before she got out, damn ...
I don't think Stan was ever able to handle any of it as a kid, hence, how he ended up. I'm getting ahead of myself here, but even the back story of when they were kids, it just didn't seem for him.
Ben and those friggin lemon snooters omg ..
I thought it was interesting how Bill's scars and stutter came back after his phone call! his poor wife stuck being on the outside watching him struggle with everything and there's nothing she can do to help .. ||

[spring harness]

finished part 1 .. I'm not sure if I wana read the interludes at the end all together or straight through 🤔 I might try all at the end since 1st time I read straight through everything

[surreal acorn]

I'm about 14 pages in

I must read read read

[surreal acorn]

Chapter 2: ||Okay that was sudden. I didn't expect a gay person to be killed like less than 50 chapters into the book! Derry seems like a nice town at first (just forget Georgie and Pennywise. . .) and then you jump right into the homophobic and violent side of Derry and the peaceful facade crumbles away.||

[spring harness]

yeah the beginning doesn't really hold back on certain things ..

[drowsy cloud]

i shoulddd be starting this tomorrow, or at least soon my audible monthly credit comes through so ill be getting it nd then starting reading it

[spring harness]

awesome! I got a good chunk in pool side last night I'm starting to get pulled in

[spring harness]

down the road I can put an extension in for anyone who needs it. I think I have this currently for 2 months?

[surreal acorn]

Is it bad that I honestly didn't expect this book to start out really good?

despite the contents of Chapter 2 lol

[surreal acorn]

I'm gonna try to finish Part 1 tomorrow

[spring harness]

up to chapter 6
|| man, fuckin Henry Bowers .. i don't think i ever disliked a character as much as i hate this damn kid.
i honestly love how Ben, Bill, and Eddie just automatically became friends within that not awkward silence they shared. it was like a collective feeling of 'i understand you, you understand me, you're one of us' .. i love the friendships that develop.
the friggin mummy Ben sees and Bill dealing with the photo album in Georgies room, shits starting to get a little cray cray 👀 ||

[surreal acorn]

Okay this book is so good

I love it so much

[spring harness]

where you at?

[surreal acorn]

I'm like only 80 pages in lol

[regal sonnet]

hello everyone! decided to join this BR a little later...but VERY excited. 🤡

• This will be my first time reading the book.
• Ive seen the movies both old and new. I will say I do love all the adaptations of the story that I’ve seen.
• I actually am hoping this book is as scary as I am hoping. I feel like the movies relied heavily on how scary Pennywise can come across in person.
• Im a huge fan of Stephen King and finally wanted to check this book off my list. I hate how I saw the movies before reading the book lol but maybe the movie adaptations will help with my imagination while reading lol

Ch. 1 || Okay...I was not expecting this at all. Like way to get us invested in Bill and Georges brotherhood and then just end it suddenly 😭 MAN, I felt like I could feel Georgie's fear while in Pennywise's presence, though. The way Pennywise tried to make him feel comfortable before killing him...What a sick character right from the beginning! SIDE NOTE: the first chapter really sucked me in lol ||

[slim ivy]

Up to Part 1, Chapter 3 : The Shadow Before (Six Phone Calls)
I've been reading this on and off, it's ofc a reread for me so I haven't got too much to say.
||I will say that as far as iconic opening chapters, this is it, this is the peak. Not just by Stephen King standards, I'm going to say in literature in general. ||

[surreal acorn]

I'm gonna go to my own little Barrens today!

I shall take pictures and show you all lol

I haven't got to that part yet, but I just know it exists because I've seen a bunch of movie clips

[surreal acorn]

Here it is

The Barrens

But the ripoff Canadian version

[balmy sail]

Can anyone else see these images?

[edgy talon]

not unless i download the,

[surreal acorn]

Agh

Okay I'll try to change it so that you don't need to download them

Taking forever to download

https://tenor.com/view/waiting-titanic-gif-25999423

NOO

I'll try again

NOO

Doesn't wanna work

I guess you'll just have to download to see it, sadly

[spring harness]

ugh i know .. || espeically compared to the movies, i don't think you really feel their bond as you do in the book .. that 1st chapter is just so damn cruel but just pulls you right in to the shit show, lol ||

[spring harness]

i still couldn't see after downloading

[surreal acorn]

Agh

That's annoying

[surreal acorn]

I finished the First Interlude today!

Now I'm about 180 pages in

[surreal acorn]

I love Ben so much

Ben, Beverly, and Bill are my fav

The three B's

Also I'm watching the movie right now because I couldn't wait lol

[acoustic panther]

Also I'm watching
the movie right now because
I couldn't wait lol

- Smeagy the Ringwanter 29/50

[surreal acorn]

HAIKY BOT SHUSH

HAIKU BOT BE QUIET

NO ONE LOVES YOU

NO ONE EVER WILL

[surreal acorn]

Dark Tower series spoilers, whole IT book/movie spoilers : ||I love seeing all the turtle references in the movie. I wonder what significanse it will have, because I remember that at the end there's something to do with the Great Turtle. My brother told me about it and I've watched the Dead Meat kill count lol. But i think it's more in the book, I dunno.||

[spring harness]

I didn't know thay was in TDT too. there was a reference in the 11st chapter too if you caught it

[surreal acorn]

I'm not there yet

I'm about 260 pages in now

Or

280

Yeah 280 pages in

Movie Criticism Time: ||THEY CANNOT BE IN FIFTH GRADE NO WAY! The more I watch the more i realise they literally cannot be 11 years old in this movie||

[spring harness]

it was pretty close the beginning

I meant first chapter not 11. hate this phone

[surreal acorn]

Ooooh, okay

It's fine lol

What was the reference??

Actually

Don't say I shall find it on my second time reading this book

I'm gonna read The Dark Tower in chronological order

Anyways, I'm gonna get back to the movie now

[spring harness]

lemme know when you find it. you'll have to go back as it was in the very beginning

[surreal acorn]

I take it back

It says that ||they're 13||

[surreal acorn]

Yup, that'll be for my re-read time lol

I mean, I might just do it this summer

[slim ivy]

Okay just checking in that I'm up to Part 2, Chapter 9
||They really missed so much nice relationship building from the books in the movies- Like how Bev, Richie and Ben went to the movies together, or how Bill is seen by the boys. Or even Ben showing off his architecual skills with the creek! I also kind of like how much cheesier Pennywise's transformations are in the book.|| Basically the book is just better. Book > Tim Curry TV series > Bill Skarsgard movies.

[surreal acorn]

I honestly like the BIll Skarsgard movie so far

But I do like the book better, yes

The thing I don't really like about the movie are the jumpscares and cheesy little moments

As well as ||the weird vibrating cinamatography when Pennywise is fighting with the kids.||

[slim ivy]

I generally just think that the Tim Curry series is just more enjoyable because of how close it is to the book - the Bill Skarsgard movies are fun but there's a lot of soul missing

[surreal acorn]

Oooh

I should watch the Tim Curry one if I can

[spring harness]

100% agree to all of this

i think i enjoyed the Tim Curry one more than the Skarsgard ones .. i love them all, but i loved certain things about the OG

they both captured different aspects of the book and i think the mini series went 1 way and the chapter 1 & 2 movies a complete other way

[surreal acorn]

https://tenor.com/view/it-discord-reaction-pennywise-gif-26348500

[spring harness]

finished chapter 7
|| think my favorite was when they were sharing their stories of IT encounters. holding something like that in and knowing you're not alone had to be such a relief for them to get it out and knew someone believed them ||

[slim ivy]

It's ya girl, checking in at the start of Part 3 Chapter 10.

Derry: The Second Interlude
||YO I FORGOT THAT HALLORAN WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BLACK SPOT. It's always fun to find references to the expanded King universe. Poor Dick has been through it man|| - Doctor Sleep spoiler :|| Being sexually abused by his grandfather then haunted by his grandfather|| The Shining spoilers: ||going to war, surviving The Black Spot hate crime, then going on to The Overlook and nearly getting his face smashed in by Jack Torrence... ||
||Still the interlude chapters are great; the world building around Derry is just fascinating. It's interesting that the Skarsgard movies included a lot of the imagery from The Black Spot fire for what Mike is afraid of.||

[spring harness]

you are flying through 😆

[surreal acorn]

I'm gonna read a lot today, hopefully

[spring harness]

I wish I could. it's rainy perfect reading weather and I'm stuck working

[surreal acorn]

Nooo

Rainy weather is perfect reading weather

[spring harness]

ugh I know
especially for this read too.

[surreal acorn]

I was reading it a while ago during a thunderstorm, best experience hehehe

And then there was a tornado warning

[spring harness]

I really love how there's this general like, stale-ness in the air in Derry. just the whole scenery and everything involved, not just the story line or characters, there's just something so, so off .. idk how to explain it when it's all something I feel ..

[spring harness]

up to part 3 chapter 10
spoilers for newer movie comparison involving Stan || the picture frame scene scared me more than the sandpipe scene in the book involving Stan's encounter. continuing to be obsessed with the losers club and their growing bond ||

[surreal acorn]

I found an error on one of the pages OoO

I forgot which page it is, but there's a quotation mark where it's not supposed to be

And it's face the wrong way

facing*

[surreal acorn]

I finished Chapter 8 and over halfway through Chapter 9

||Beverly's dad is such a creep. . . I hope he dies.||

[spring harness]

@muted dust @tired linden @drowsy cloud @wraith tundra @viscid sonnet @halcyon estuary @empty trench @edgy talon @vague rain @rigid jasper @empty pumice @frosty zealot @river zenith

hey all just checking in! seeing if anyone's gotten started reminding to post and progress so you can get points when finishing!

I seen posts from @slim ivy @surreal acorn & @hazy cosmos which is awesome

let me know if you're you're opting out of reading so I don't bug you with pings 😆
appreciate everyone being here in anyway they choose! just don't want you missing out on points 🤘

for those who have started-

• general thoughts so far? 👀
• any favorite characters or scenes? ❤️

[viscid sonnet]

• ||It's scarier than I remembered... but still amazing ❤️ it's a horror masterpiece ||
• ||the Beverly's bathroom scene is my favorite, I don't know why... and Ben is my favorite character ||

[drowsy cloud]

planning on starting this soon! I've been in an audiobook slump lately ~~idk how that works either tbh ~~ so I'm either gonna get it on kindle nd start reading it on there or I'll just try to suck it up a bit

[spring harness]

that scene is definitely creepy!

[spring harness]

no worries or pressure!
just wanted to gage where everyone was at just so no one misses out on points. if they're reading that's awesome but there have to be progression posts so they can get points at the end (you know the deal 😆)

[surreal acorn]

General Thoughts: I did not expect this book to actually scare me! It's one of the only ones to do so besides The Shining, Salem's Lot and Let the Right One In.

Favourite Scenes/Character: I love the characters and I resonate the most with Ben and Richie. Beverly is third, then Bill, Eddie, Stanley and Mike. I haven't seen much of Mike yet. My favourite scene though. . . ||There's two! The Beverly blood sink scene and the part where Ben is walking home and sees It on the ice with balloons that go against the wind. That scene was horrifying and I was reading it at night. . .||

[surreal acorn]

Do I need to read all the interludes

I'm at the second one

||So much talking and it's very boring snoring||

[spring harness]

I know. I read them all the 1st time I read the book, this time I'm skipping them but reading them in order when I finish

I'm pretty sure they have a lot to do with other books and the SK universe

[slim ivy]

Checking in at Part 5, Chapter 19

Part 4, Chapter 16
||See, while I know that they did this scene in the more modern movie, nothing covers how upsetting this whole chapter is for poor Eddie. His mother is another terrifying element in this book because she has something that is a real world nightmare - Munchausen By Proxy. Though I will admit the 'fucking gazebos' bit still makes me laugh from the movie. ||

Chapter 4, Chapter 17
||I hate this chapter so much. In a book full of unhinged and upsetting scenes, the description of that dog trying to escape the refrigerator always bums me out tremendously. Patrick Hocksteader is one of the most unsettling characters that King has written and he's only really present for less than 20 pages in this book. ||

[drowsy cloud]

started this last night!! stephen king really does like to waffle on sometimes im enjoying it though, i know its gonna get better too so its not too bad

if i could survive the waffle in the stand nd still love it, i can survive it here

[slim ivy]

It's like listening to your dad or grandpa tell you a long ass story

[drowsy cloud]

id never thought of that but its absolutely spot on

[spring harness]

|| I'm not ready to revisit that sick prick ||

[slim ivy]

[spring harness]

I also agree with you on Eddie's mom .. || all these kids had fucked up family's for the most part ||

[slim ivy]

||Mike's family stands out as nice, same for Richie and Stan's too actually.||
||Bev, Eddie and poor Bill post-Georgie's death. Not forgetting that Ben's mother was actively enabling him to get really fat. I'll throw in Henry Bowers too for good measure but that gets into the whole debate on if Henry would have stood a chance if Butch wasn't his dad. ||

[spring harness]

|| yeah the whole Henry and butch thing is definitely debatable. he's either s product of his environment or just a bad egg .. he was a weak minded kid who was easily influenced by evil, as misery loves company .. and yes Bill post Georgie family is very sad .. they all encounter different evils within their own homes and its unfortunate they all encounter so many things alone and together ||

[surreal acorn]

UM UM

WHAT DID I JUST READ

WHAT WHAT WHAT

WHY STEPHEN KING

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

IM NOT EVEN TO THAT SCENE YET BUT THIS ONE IS JUST SO DISGUSTING

[acoustic panther]

IM NOT EVEN TO
THAT SCENE YET BUT THIS ONE IS
JUST SO DISGUSTING

- Smeagy the Ringwanter 29/50

[surreal acorn]

||Why does he have to describe Beverly's weird father/IT shapeshifting into her dad wanting to literally have sex with her?? I beat you because I want to FUCK you JESUS CHRISTTTTT STEPHEN KING I DON'T NEED TO KNOOOWWWWW THAT!||

Don't click spoiler unless you've passed Chapter 11

[spring harness]

yeah that was, intense .. i will say, just continue to brace yourself 😬

[spring harness]

up to chapter 13 .. || Tom is absolutely horrible. ugh this is when things really start to turn and get dark .. friggin Henry Bowers was right where he deserved to be and escapes .. really crazy how pennywise appears as what individuals fear most .. || I love this damn book so much

[slim ivy]

General IT movie spoilers (new and old)
||I really really appreciate what Skarsgard did but come the fuck on Tim Curry is a literal 1:1 to what book Pennywise is about. This thing is fucking with them and having a fantastic time doing it, its doing what it can to make them as afraid and uncomfortable as possible but as the same time it's weirdly hilarious, disgusting and witty at times??? Skarsgard had none of that going on.||

[iron needle]

I feel bad for the brick of a book that's staring at me, waiting to be read, but I think it'll have to wait longer for it

@spring harness I'll be very busy in August and I most probably won't be reading this one. I might drop out of the other two BRs I showed interest in and read just this, I'll just have to see what happens. Don't count me out just yet, but I simply wanted to let you know that I might not end up reading it

[slim ivy]

All done
||Is this book controversial? Yes. Does this have chapters that have aged poorly, are morally dubious, downright bizarre or just straight up uncomfortable? Absolutely. Do I love this book? More than you could know. I am not even going to bother getting into certain chapters that are infamous. We know they exist. We know they're strange. Does that change that this book is so much more than just a scary story? No. Absolutely not. I will defend this book, bizarre as it is for the ultimate tale of friendship, love, what it means to be brave, the fears that dominate us in childhood and shape us as adults, overcoming said fears with the guiding hands of the ones we love and facing up against the ugly reality of not just things that are so much bigger than us but also even growing up itself.
I wished as a kid that I could have had friends like the 7 and I remember weeping through my first read during the final two chapters as they began to forget again. There are so many iconic characters from Stephen King's works but Pennywise sits as one of the strangest but most interesting creations he has come up with. I stand by that if you want to see a 1:1 recreation of this book, the TV series/movie featuring Tim Curry is the way to go. It's cheesy but it's suitably cheesy for this kind of read. ||

[spring harness]

no worries!!! do whatever works best for you! ❤️

[spring harness]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-wwe-oh-yes-yeah-gif-7549364

[spring harness]

i agree with this .. || especially the scene where Ben is older and at the library, and Tim Curry is doing the refrigerator and prince albert jokes and the friggin laugh he does?! i looooooved the clown he portrayed. Skarsgard was a much darker take which i also love any day of the week, but Tim Curry was just ||

[surreal acorn]

||I think Skarsgard was too scary. Like, he didn't frighten me, but like you said, Tim Curry was like. . . making Pennywise not seem scary, but scary at the same time. And in the book, Pennywise is like laughing and making fun of them too. I like the newer IT adaptation better than the old one (I actually had a chance to watch it gberhwgberhjk), but Tim Curry was more Pennywise-y than Skarsgard. Skarsgard was more playing into the alien space demon role.||

[surreal acorn]

||I Shall imitate laugh. . . MM HA MM HA MM HA||

[surreal acorn]

Finished Part 3!

So fucking good

I love this book so much

What I have to say is: ||TOM YOU IDIOT BITCH I HATE YOU DIE GO DIE IN A HOLE I BET YOU EAT POO FOR DINNER. YOU TOO HENRY BOWERS I HATE YOU||

The ending to Part 3 was very good

But now I'm on edge

[surreal acorn]

350 pages left!

This book. . .

has made me feel every emotion possible so far

Disgust, horror, amusement, sadness, happiness, anger and suspense

Anxiety, I mean

Not suspense

Anxiety

I can't get over irt

it*

[spring harness]

wow you are flying through!

[surreal acorn]

Yes yes, drives

I never thought I could hate a character more than Henry Bowers

But I do

[acoustic panther]

I never thought I
could hate a character more
than Henry Bowers

- Smeagy the Ringwanter 29/50

[surreal acorn]

HAIKU BOT IF YOU SPEAK ONE MORE TIME

I PROMISE I WILL FIND YOU

AND I WILL NIBBLE UPON YOUR CHEEKS

[slim ivy]

Get excited! There's someone worse!

[surreal acorn]

WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

WHO CAN POP UP IN THE LAST 300 PAGES

Because. . .

||Patrick Hockstetter is terrible||

||I hate him to my guts. He killed his baby brother when he was FIVE??!?!!! Crazy bobazy.||

[viscid sonnet]

TRUE.

[drowsy cloud]

im going to work out on my own today, so im gonna listen to the audiobook while im working out! mostly just when im doing cardio, somehow im not sure if this is the best motivation when lifting but still ill update thoughts nd my progress either while im listening or when i get home

[spring harness]

actually sounds like a really good idea, especially if you reach certain parts during lol

currently engulfed in chapter 13

[drowsy cloud]

chap 3, bills part: ||the dig on British sports was funny to me as a brit who's watched American soccer nd compared its absolutely lame but also Bill is giving me such... main character vibes? I loved him in the 2017 nd 2018 movies but im just finding him so annoying in his classes||

[spring harness]

i forget, @drowsy cloud , is this your 1st time reading this?
I really feel the book gave way more value to each character. feel like a lot of things were glossed over in the films (not knocking them. they're all high up on my favorite movies list) the book just offers so SO much more.

[drowsy cloud]

yesss it is!!! I watched both of the newer movies nd I intend on watching the old movie when I've finished the book

I defo think there's more character to them already!

I'm gonna spoiler this just in case but ||the joke in the chapter 2 movie when king makes a cameo in the shop nd bill buys the bike for him, nd he's reading one of bills books nd he says like "I didn't like the ending" or smth? it's funny but now hearing more about bill as a writer it feels like a reflection on king nd his own works/status as a writer.||

I think what most made me think this is when bill says like ||" why can't stories just be stories" nd saying shit about how not everything should be sociopolitical or smth ||

[spring harness]

haha nice catch there! I was screaming out loud at that part 🤣

[surreal acorn]

AGH same

Or

Wait I think I'm more ahead than you

Oh wait I'm on Chapter 18 O_o

[spring harness]

ah yeah so you're way into the insanity

I hated in the beginning of chapter 13
|| where Henry murdered Mike's dog .. || that was tough but I know shit gets worse ..

I'm looking forward to discussing the end with yall

[surreal acorn]

Oh yeah that part was horrible

But I think the worst part, so far

[spring harness]

oh boy .. buckle up

[surreal acorn]

Is when ||Patrick Hockstetter killed his brother when he was FIVE YEARS OLD, also describing how Patrick was jerking off Henry???????||

[spring harness]

oh wait I read it wrong

yes .. yeah that was .. yeah ..

[surreal acorn]

||And also the description of Patrick killing the neighbourhood cats and dogs in the refrigerator is just. . . disgusting. It was horrible. Agh.||

[spring harness]

he was the absolute worst ..

[surreal acorn]

Also, random, but it was so humid on the beach and my books weren't used to it

So now my copy of IT is a little warped

[drowsy cloud]

OK im on chap 5 rn in part 2, nd my fave character so far is ben!! i relate to him a lot nd i like bill too. i can defo see what you mean Nyx when you said that ||the characters have so much more depth than they had in the movies, specifically because i remember not really caring about ben, but he has so much more... character i guess now? same with beverly actually. i feel like in the movie she was just. the girl. nd like the sad abused damsel, esp chapter 1 nd like the love interest for bill nd to a bit of a lesser extent, ben (even if he clearly was more in love with her, they just didnt focus on it much past the start iirc) so now seeing her being developed more, even before her like "child" chapter nd not just being the hot girl||

no serious big spoilers or anything, v general but i just didnt wanna risk it

[spring harness]

exactly!!

[drowsy cloud]

gonna keep listening while i organise some stuff before dinner im hoping to make some decent progress today tbh, ive been a bit shit with reading lately

[surreal acorn]

WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT AM I READING

STEPHEN

PLEASE

KINDLY DIE

[surreal acorn]

I finished

Well, like 2 hours ago I finished lol

I did not expect an ending like that

Reading "That Scene" felt criminal

Especially when I was in public

AT THE BEACH

WITH MY PARENTS

shivers

||"Beverly felt Ben was too big for her" or the line like that. . . THAT WAS DISGUSTING! URGH! You're 11 years old. . . that scene was literally just child p@rn||

Asides from that, very yummy book

It was delicious

I want a turtle now too

https://tenor.com/view/turtle-world-awesome-rotation-turtle-gif-15574487

You could very much tell Stephen King was on cocaine towards the end of this book

[surreal acorn]

I must get The Gunslinger as a BR

Or else OBC will make me sad

Sad as an empty turtle shell

[spring harness]

ah yeah .. I remember the 1st time with that scene. I have idea to somewhat rationalize why the hell that happened, but there's just so much more to the book than just that part lol .. the ending really threw me through a loop though ..

[surreal acorn]

Same. . .

[spring harness]

@muted dust @tired linden @drowsy cloud @wraith tundra @viscid sonnet @halcyon estuary @empty trench @edgy talon @vague rain @rigid jasper @empty pumice @frosty zealot @river zenith @slim ivy @surreal acorn @hazy cosmos
hey happy Tuesday!
How are we all coming along? i know a couple has finished here are some progress questions- **PLEASE remember to use spoiler tags! 😃 **

-has anything stuck out to you? i.e. specific scenes, characters, vibes, anything
-do you have any guesses as to what's going to happen from where you are to the end?
-overall, how are you feeling?

some questions if you have finished~
-what affected you the most, if anything?

• did anything actually scare/freak you out?
  -how would pennywise appear to you?

[viscid sonnet]

-|| like I said the Beverly's bathroom scene... and I don't know, the story of the Turtle maybe, I find it so magical and poetic... the IT origins too... and Ben in general||
-|| it would be a sort of a spider or something related to the dark and loneliness... I don't know exactly||

[surreal acorn]

I have finished!

1. Yes. That scene. And the scene where ||Patrick jerks off Henry and then gets killed by those leech things, as well as the part in Patrick's memories explaining how he killed his baby brother when he was only 5.||
2. I want a sequel. Now.
3. Disturbed. One of the only books to succesfully disturb me lol

OH WAIT I LITERALLY JUST MISSED THE BIGGEST SCENE IN THE BOOK

||The part where Derry sinks into the canal and completely falls apart and gets destroyed.||

||The Beverly blood sink scene is pretty traumatisding too lol||

The thing that affected me the most might've been how ||all the adults forgot everything once leaving Derry. Same with the idea that the whole town was on top of an alien crash-site O_o||

||Pennywise would appear to me as. . . I dunno. How do you embody the fear of darkness??? He also might appear as a sick person vomiting all over me O_o, kinda like Eddie's leper.||

[spring harness]

geeze .. Apocalyptic Rockfight ch 13- || forgot how this was such a screwed up scene. movies kind of made light of it and entertaining. Henry is just, ugh, fuckin crazy .. ||

[drowsy cloud]

• OOO OK YES SO im up to chapter 7 (part 2) nd i think the ||very fucked up nature of the town itself nd the people in it really stuck out to me. youve got extremely twisted bullies like Henry Bowers, absolutely horrific parents like the step father of dorcy (?) nd edward (i think thats their names) as well as Bev's dad nd Eddies mum. theres so much shit like... behind the scenes within the town nd it feels intentional. like maybe ITs presence has twisted the people within Derry||
• i do kinda know whats gonna happen because of watching both the new movies so i wont answer this one because of bias
• im having fun!!! ive mostly been listening while im at the gym to help me get through cardio, but im finding it hard to stop once ive moved onto lifting because i just get so hooked

king's character building will never not be amazing to me

esp in his longer books, i think his amazing characterisation really shines through because he can truly explore these peoples minds nd get you to really just fall in love with them

[hazy cosmos]

I still have a loooonnnngggg way to go because I'm still in Part 2

I'll answer with what I know so far
||- I guess the most memorable would be the suspense vibe, as they gathered again for the "childhood reunion"

• Nope. I do know that there are 2 parts of the movie and I am nowhere near the end of part 1 of the movie. I have read the movie spoiler about someone's dying later in the ending
• Its very spooky and tbh I'm pretty scared to read it at night ||

I don't think I'll finish this on time tho. It's almost the end of August and I have school stuff to work on

[spring harness]

if anyone needs an extension i can request more time! no worries on that ❤️

up to the middle of chapter 16
|| i forgot all about the smoke house ritual they did-that would have been cool to see in action in the movies, there really was soooo much more in this chonk of a book and i just love getting into all the disturbing details of everything. i find it so cool that the theory of IT being around for years and year and years before their time, to me that's just there's always going to be fear in something no matter what, so it'll always have something to feed off of ..
idk why the rock fight bothered me so much this time around 😆 might be hormones or something but the parent in me just felt all the emotions feeling so bad for the kids.
i love how the power of 7 just connected them all in an unspoken way .. will forever be my favorite part and the heartbreaking feeling when you flip the last page that it's all over, until Derry calls you back again .. ||

[spring harness]

and here it starts .. chapter 17, Patrick's chapter ..

[vague rain]

I'm definitely gonna need an extension nyx! I've been in a bad reading flunk lately

[surreal acorn]

Uh oh

That part. . .

Traumatised me the most, I think lol

[slim ivy]

• what affected you the most, if anything?
  ||Patrick Hoffsteader's chapter continues to be one of the most upsetting things I've read, this includes certain scenes in The Troop. I never look forward to getting to this chapter - I'm not really phased much by the certain scene involving Bev and the boys (it's weird and out of nowhere not denying that) but the idea of that poor dog... And what he did to his brother...||

• did anything actually scare/freak you out?
  ||I'm not sure about scared but I used to think about the voices in the drains a lot when I read this as a kid. Conceptually it's so simple but such a eerie piece of imagery.||

• how would pennywise appear to you?
  || || This ain't even a joke.

[spring harness]

no problem chick!

if i could ask SK 1 thing, it might be questioning why this man is so obsessed with farts 😆 i swear every book has some scene or mentioning

[drowsy cloud]

yeah its weird af its like with his ||Oedipus... thing, like freud would be proud LMAO||

[spring harness]

i agree with the Patrick chapter .. || reading that pregnant, i think was worse for me than last time with Avery .. and then his father seeing the puddles from his boots and knowing Patrick had something to do with it and never did a thing ... hard to feel any sort of empathy for what comes of Patrick after the fridge .. ||

for the scare/freak out- || the drains terrified me both book and movies. for yearrrrrrrssss as a kid i showered facing the drain paranoind a red balloon was going to make an appearance ||

[drowsy cloud]

now im excited for the patrick chapter

[hazy cosmos]

an extension would be nicee

[surreal acorn]

Don't be. . .

[drowsy cloud]

it's morbid excitement, I just need to know whats got everyone so freaked out

[spring harness]

I put a request in for September 15th! of we need to go past that I'm sure it won't be a problem 💙

[spring harness]

ohh just you wait ..

[drowsy cloud]

chap 8: ||ritchie saying one of the reasons he liked bev is that she always has cigs has got to be the realest reason I've ever heard for someone to like another person, even if I've quit smoking, me too Ritchie ||

[torn blaze]

BR has been extended!!
New BR duration: <t:1688169600:D>-<t:1694736000:D>

[spring harness]

starting part 5 chapter 19

[spring harness]

I'm not sure which was worse .. Patrick's chapter or chapter 19 ..
|| I think the most frightening scene so far might be Beverly's father after her and then Bowers and crew .. I can't fathom the amount of fear Beverly had to have had in that moment .. the fact no one around can ever help these kids gets to me a lot too .. they have no one to turn to for help besides themselves. I know its enough for them, for the most part, but that was so much weight for those kids to bare ..
Henry's really lost his shit too .. kid never had a chance .. ||

[surreal acorn]

I'm honestly sad I finished this book

Like over a week ago

And I'm still sad about it

I wished it was longer

[spring harness]

that was exactly how I felt the 1st time. it left such an emptiness being finished

[spring harness]

92% finished .. into the home stretch!

[surreal acorn]

I can send pictures of errors I found now

So that one is from way at the end

It says “Child” instead of “Chüd”

That one just have a random quotation mark for no reason

Also here’s a nice quote

It’s also closeish to the end

[spring harness]

woo, finished!

[hazy cosmos]

up to ch 6 now, but ch 5 ||when bill looked at the album and see george's eyes moving- i'm so glad i didnt see the movie because i dont think i could ever recover ||

[drowsy cloud]

HAHAHA FRRRR

[iron needle]

The more I read the messages here the more I become glad about deciding to read the as my first Stephen King novel

I'm unimaginably insensitive to weird and gorry stuff, so I'm interested to see what my thoughts on this book will be when I read it

[spring harness]

omg I'm excited for you lol

[iron needle]

How long does it take before the "horrible/weird" stuff starts?

[spring harness]

well the worst of the worst is towards the end .. but there are scattered parts that are pretty scrwscrewed up throughout. where are you currently?

[iron needle]

Haven't started it

[iron needle]

.

[spring harness]

oh no worries. yeah you'll come across disturbances along the way. but as mentioned towards the end is where it's totally screwed

ahh yess I do remember you saying that now

[iron needle]

Would it be bad if I stayed unhinged even after I finished reading the book?

Idk how bad it is, in fact I don't know anything about it except that there's something to do with clowns, and I was wondering if I'd finally be a certified psychopath if I got through this book without flinching once

[spring harness]

I wouldn't judge 🤷🏻‍♀️

[spring harness]

I am curious to know how you feel when you do read it though-keep me in mind to update lol

[surreal acorn]

I CAN FINALLY SHARE PICTURES OF THE BARRENS BY MY HOUSE

There’s a weird pipe under it

Well, two pipes

One of them became visible recently due to a miniature land slide during the winter run off a year ago

The other was always showing

It’s always vibrating and there’s miniature pipes leading to it

Here’s a random sewer pipe in the nearby town

OoO I need to delete that it has the town name

[drowsy cloud]

YOOOO SMEAGY THATS COOL AF I'm jealous

[spring harness]

dude thats super cool

[drowsy cloud]

imagine going on a picnic there nd sitting reading with a flask of tea

[spring harness]

I wish I had an area like that around me .. to suburbs-y here

[surreal acorn]

The last picture is in a town OoO

Kinda like Derry, honestly

But the first two is all around my house

[spring harness]

just put on chapter 1 to watch ❤️

[surreal acorn]

OOOOOO

I honestly really liked the movie gbgehjkrhb

I just need to see Chapter 2

[spring harness]

my youngest asked to put it on 🤣🤣

meanwhile her heads shoved behind a pillow

I can't remember in the mini series if !|| Beverly cuts off her hair? || that didn't happen in the book and was curious if that was added to both adaptations

[surreal acorn]

||She didn't cut off her hair in the miniseries||

[spring harness]

okay so just the newer movie then. thank you! couldn't remember

[acoustic panther]

okay so just the
newer movie then. thank you!
couldn't remember

- nyxxxxx_xxxx

[spring harness]

oh jesus 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

[drowsy cloud]

i will say that did confuse me a bit, since i watched the newer movies first so ||i was thinking "wait so she doesnt actually cut her hair?" but then i think the relationship between her nd her dad is a bit different than in the new movies||

iirc ||her mum is dead in the new movies nd her dad regularly SAs her nd its like. implied that its because she reminds him of her mum, but with where i am in the book now (chapter 9) her mum has asked her if her dad has ever touched her but nothing has really come of it||

[spring harness]

yeah the newer movies I'm noticing are different with a few aspects with things like that

movies also changed || how pennywise appears to the kids || won't go into too much detail there if you haven't covered all of that in the book yet

[drowsy cloud]

i will say initially i was like "damn thats kinda shit" that they left stuff out nd it made me dislike the movie a bit for it, but then i was thinking about it nd like... its a 1k+ page book, liberties are going to be taken

[spring harness]

I know-i am so critical with things like that

[drowsy cloud]

yesss i noticed that too! ive not seen all of it yet ||its just stans i think that i havent seen yet?|| but ||iirc the only one thats the same so far is eddie with the leper, but in the movie i think it was more like a mummy/zombie figure while in the book its a homeless man? || i kinda wish in the movies theyd kept ||ritchie nd bill seeing the werewolf|| because i thought that was absolutely dope

[spring harness]

yeah dude that whole scene in the book was intense!!!

and yeah for eddie in the movie || it was a gross ass homeless diseased thing .. which I guess still fits in the book, but mummies were Ben's thing and in the movie Ben sees a kid from the Derry history book he checks out .. ||

[drowsy cloud]

OHH RIGHT YEAH ||got them a bit mixed up there lolol||

||its interesting because iirc ben sees the pictures move too, but then i dont think bill sees georgies pictures? i know he sees georgie nd stuff, but i dont think theres pictures with him that move, its ben who sees the derry history book pictures move||

[spring harness]

I already passed that scene in the movie and can't remember if he saw the book or not lol.
but yes you're right about Ben

[drowsy cloud]

i really need to rewatch the movies tbf its been a while since ive watched them! might have to once im done with the book

[spring harness]

it's making me forget things from the book lol

I do prefer movie Butch to book Butch though

but then that does take away from || Henry's straight insanity ||

[surreal acorn]

Same

[drowsy cloud]

yesss agreed!

[surreal acorn]

I already forgot that if in the book ||Henry killed his dad||

[spring harness]

yeah I think it's similar to the movie with that scene with || the mailbox and balloon but in the book it comes from Bob Gray ||

[surreal acorn]

And if he did, my eyes skimmed over it, somehow

OH WAIT

YES

YES I REMEMBER NOW YEAH

[spring harness]

yeah none of that if ever mentioned in the movies || pennywises real name ||

[surreal acorn]

Doesn't he do that a little after ||lighting his farts on fire O_O||

[spring harness]

I think so because he's pissed about || that scene with Patrick || .. I think though I might be wrong

[drowsy cloud]

i thought that part in the movie was cool as hell, like ||with the TV nd stuff telling him to kill his dad||

[spring harness]

did you notice all the adults in the movie are watching that show?

[acoustic panther]

did you notice all
the adults in the movie
are watching that show?

- nyxxxxx_xxxx

[surreal acorn]

Same

[surreal acorn]

Yes hehehe

I loved this book so much

I can't say it enough

[drowsy cloud]

omg no but thats cool as hell!!!

[surreal acorn]

Even though it's still not my favourite Stephen King book

That spot is held by The Dark Half and The Shining

[spring harness]

after I have the baby for my birthday I might get Eddie's cast signing as a tattoo

[drowsy cloud]

yesss ive been thinking about getting that too!!

[spring harness]

I love it lol

[surreal acorn]

WHA- OOOOOO

My brother is getting the hound of hell tatooed onto his abdomen

Or, I dunno what it's called

Some wolf thing he saw on the roof of a church in England

[drowsy cloud]

i really want a new tattoo in general tbh, but sadly adulting calls nd i gotta save money for uni

oooo thats cool as hell!!! painful placement though hahaha

[spring harness]

ohhhhh I just realized something from the movie!!!

spoiler for the end of the book || in the movie when they jump in/play in the quarry they find a turtle in the water !!!! ||

[surreal acorn]

||YES I NOTICED THAT||

||Also, during the filming of the movie, they kept finding turtles lol||

[spring harness]

lol what in real life during filming?

it'd almost over and I just remembered seeing that cos I was explaining to my daughter how all of that's missing from the movies

[surreal acorn]

Yes hehehe

[spring harness]

that's cute lol

[surreal acorn]

They had to do de-aging on Finn Wolfhard

Or however you spell his name

Like they had to edit him to make him look younger towards the end of the movie

Same with in Chapter 2

[spring harness]

he's forever Mike to me. not even Richie 🤣🤣 (stranger things)

[surreal acorn]

The problems of filming with children going through puberty lol

[surreal acorn]

YUP

[spring harness]

yeah and the age they used too probably hard to avoid

[surreal acorn]

Yeah

they were all ike 13, I think

And they had to use voice dubs in Chapter 2 lol

[spring harness]

oh wow

[surreal acorn]

yeah. . .

And the director had to tell them to act like they were 13 again

What I wish was in the movie was the weird ||Beverly/Dad chase scene||

||Like her dad chasing her through Derry||

||For some reason, I pictured him running on all fours||

[spring harness]

that was so damn intense in the book

[surreal acorn]

Yeah, I was like on my tip toes

ihonestly think it was one of the most intense scenes out of the entire novel

[spring harness]

yeah and then || her hiding under in the club house clutching to ben out of extreme fear ||

I also noticed with Patrick || he had a cat on his shirt ||

[surreal acorn]

But the most intense moment was definitely the climax

||Like I didn't think IT would end how it did too||

||Like I thought IT would just die and it would all end BUT DERRY HAD TO COLLAPSE INTO THE CANAL||

||So crazy||

[spring harness]

that had me SO confused

[surreal acorn]

Actually?

What confused you??

[spring harness]

yeah idk why I couldn't wrap my head around what was going on with previous scenes .. both 1st and 2nd time reading I was like wait what just happened

[surreal acorn]

I was just reading it with my mouth open

I finished it at the beach

I probably looked crazy

[spring harness]

I had to go back a few times cos I remember reading your spoiler about it and since I read it already but wasn't there this go around I was like woahhh I missed something there lol

[surreal acorn]

WHA-

HOW DO YOU MISS A SCENE LIKE THAT LOL

[spring harness]

I DONT KNOW 🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

i think because it was just all SO much that took place beforehand? I really don't know

[hazy cosmos]

the second interlude, before part 3 ||is this dick hallorann from the shining?!||

[hazy cosmos]

I just finished part 3 and ||OMG I'm very excited to see where this is going. The fact that Henry Bowers is going back to Derry is already so... mind blowing 🤯 I can't believe he escaped with no difficulty? And that It could go as far into Juniper Hill?? I thought It could only roamed around Derry!! With Tom and Audra also coming there, I'm scared for themm ||

[spring harness]

|| he did seem to leave with 0 difficulty lol .. and good point about It reaching Juniper Hill .. I guess it's able to travel outside of derry 🤷🏻‍♀️ ||

[spring harness]

@muted dust @tired linden @wraith tundra @halcyon estuary @empty trench @edgy talon @rigid jasper @empty pumice @frosty zealot @river zenith

**heyyyy fellow losers club 🤡 .. in case you missed it, this has been extended until September 15th! so there's still some time to finish if you haven't already.
also wanted to check in who's still reading? if you're not going to read IT, that's totally fine! just lemme know and i can stop pinging you for updates 😃 🤘 **

for those who are still reading-any additional thoughts you'd like to add to your progress?

i know myself, @surreal acorn and @slim ivy have finished reading-anyone else finish for me to add to the completion list?
and @viscid sonnet, @drowsy cloud , & @hazy cosmos i've been seeing your progress along your way 👍 thank you for that!

[drowsy cloud]

v glad it got extended hahaha, im gonna jump right back in as soon as i finish the well of ascension for a br!!

[spring harness]

no worries man! appreciate you being here when you're here! lol

[edgy talon]

Ok im going to start this today
Im going to listen to the audiobook while i reorganize my bookshelves

whenever i get the courage to do it

[surreal acorn]

Send a pic of the shelves in Shelfies if you can!

[edgy talon]

Yes i will but it will take ages even though i dont feel like i have alot of books

[surreal acorn]

Yeah, it takes so long

Carrying heavy piles of books

Rearranging trinkets

[edgy talon]

also just figuring out how to organise them😭

[surreal acorn]

I just see where my brain wants to take me

If you have too many books, I suggest stacking them

It gives more room

And sometimes it looks nice if you do it right

#book-talk now I think

[edgy talon]

Chapter 1 ||is Bill a nickname for William because I have never heard it be used before||

[surreal acorn]

Yes, it’s used more commonly in North America and farther Western Europe, like the UK

[surreal acorn]

Beverly core?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QSWEFYz0ywc

[drowsy cloud]

HAHAHAHAHA

[spring harness]

omfgg 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[drowsy cloud]

im taking advantage of being sick nd just sitting in bed listening to the audiobook im onto the second interlude now!

not really made any significant progress so i dont have many new thoughts tbh, but ill be sure to come dump em here when i do

[spring harness]

(hope you feel better <3) nice way to spend sick time lol

[drowsy cloud]

(aaa ty ty!! fingers crossed itll clear up quickly lol) oh for sure cant think of a better way!!

[hazy cosmos]

I'm gonna start Part V and so far ||I can't believe we haven't got into the present time yet?? It felt slow but somehow very fast paced too, which is perfect. Like, we got this flashback of their July memories all in just one night I wonder if they'll disclose about how Belch & Criss died, the ritual and promise, also the reason why they left. The last part's gonna be so packed ||

I took a little peek into the very last page of the book and still doesnt get it, so I'm in for a mystery ride

[drowsy cloud]

chap 11, bev's perspective: im a bit further in now but like ||WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKK WAS THAT WHEN THE OLD WOMAN TURNED INTO HER DAD IM??????????? genuinely was sat there listening to that while playing video games just looking like ||

i will say im enjoying the differences between the book nd the newer movies. ive not seen the miniseries or the old movie so i cant speak for them but its interesting seeing what was kept nd what was changed/interpretted differently!

usually i dont like when movies take liberties but i think stephen king movies v the books usually are p good on both sides

[drowsy cloud]

chapter 13, part 7: ||its very satisfying to read about henry bowers absolutely getting his shit rocked (no pun intended lmao) by them in the rock fight HAHAHAH I LOVE IT||

HA this chapter in general is great!!! seeing ||henry get absolutely fucking destroyed by all the losers is amazing HAHA||

[spring harness]

omg that scene was sooooo damn brutal in the book compared to the movies!

[drowsy cloud]

it really was!!! in the movies it was way goofier I think HAHA but I think it was that way for a lot of things in comparison

[drowsy cloud]

ive not made insane progress since my last updates yesterday but i just wanna say im loving this so much rn, its really on the way to being 5*

[drowsy cloud]

do i still have like 9hrs left of the audiobook? yes. am i still gonna try to finish it today? also yes

i forgot how much i like stan as a character!! i love how ||realistic he is in a sense, because his terror nd lack of resolve that the others seem to have. its just almost refreshing because the others seem to be so solid nd determined to get rid of it but stan... he doesnt||

[spring harness]

lol yeah || he's like the only logical one question/fearing things and everyone else is like yes lets put ourselves in scary danger 😆 before i felt the opposite as you. he annoyed me because he seemed like an 'outsider' to the losers club in the sense of like, not having everyones back in the way they had each other's-if that makes sense? but you just made good points i didn't think about before ||

[drowsy cloud]

omgg im on the patrick chapter

[balmy sail]

https://tenor.com/view/bill-hader-eating-popcorn-keith-morrison-dateline-snl-gif-25666169

I didn’t know anyone was still reading, this is great!

Ohhh it got extended. Sorry I unfollowed to cut down on thread clutter and didn’t see that. Ignore me

[drowsy cloud]

aw im glad ||i was able to give you another pov!!!! I will say, in the movies nd stuff, nd at first here too, but he did get on my nerves a bit! i think now ive read the book nd got to know stan a bit more i understand his pov a lot more than i did||

i will say though, hes ||probably the most under-explored character in the book which is sad||

[spring harness]

feel like there has to be a reason though? idk .. i might be missing more of the big picture with him .. && oh boy-brace yourself for the Patrick chapter ..

[drowsy cloud]

yeahhh i see what everyone means now about that chapter 😅 ||it was kinda gross with all the sexual shit nd his general just. disgustingness but his death was probably the worst so far-|| also yeah theres got to be a reason, im not entirely sure why but... idk

[spring harness]

yeah that really all was something else ..

[drowsy cloud]

oooof ok im up to chapter 19 on part 5, nd christ ||the scene with bev nd her dad was so heartbreaking nd v difficult to get though... the stuff with her nd her dad before was bad enough but christ. I'm loving her a lot more than when I'd just watched the movie, since the movie leaned a lot more into her dad sexually abusing her which was an interesting interpretation of his abuse but... damn idk it's just how even as an adult she kind of justifies it nd says that he loved her nd he hit her nd abused her because he loved her... || it was really hitting close to home lol

i like that ||the book does have more of a focus on the mental nd physical abuse though as opposed to the sexual abuse route. I think it's implied that he has SAd her in the past (imo) but still. it adds a new level of depth to her character that the movie wasn't able to hit imo. I can't entirely explain it but I hope people get what I mean. the focus on the different types of abuse happening at home, also the focus of the SA in the movie nd like. everyone calling her a slut nd whatever I just thought it was way too on the nose nd focused on making her look like the "broken girl" whereas in the book she's just. a girl. yk?? I'm not sure if that makes any sense, it's like her being abused isn't her whole character like it lowkey is in the movies||

[drowsy cloud]

lowkey tempted to try to stay up to finish this got about 2hrs 30 left on 2x speed so I'm really considering doing it

[drowsy cloud]

almost done!! im gonna finish it off at the gym currently on chapter 22, nd like ||wtf is with the turtle??? I'm so confused I have 0 idea what's going on with that but yk ||

[drowsy cloud]

damn chap 22 is wild, ||first Eddie dies nd then there's bev having sex with all of them? Mr King. Sir. what the fuck is going on rn||

[balmy sail]

He needs to answer for his crimes

[drowsy cloud]

im all done!!! brb while i go just cry for a bit

full thoughts! idk if ill have a lot to say since ive talked a lot throughout my reading but still! ||the final boss battle (ig) was cool, but i think for me the book itself was much better than the ending... the joke in the recent "IT: Chapter 2" movie is making a lot of sense, where King says to bill that he "didnt like the ending" of his book lmao because that was lowkey anti climactic... i also didnt particularly understand the ending with bill nd Audra?? i thought that was weird as fuck nd kinda lame but yk. overall though i did love this book, nd im willing to put the shit ending aside to just say that i loved it. i thought it was fucking insane nd i just loved it. i loved the characters, they were so fleshed out and so real which the new movies just couldnt achieve (obvs because of time limits). i will say, for once im glad i watched the movies before i read the book because i think it just made the book look even better|| 5 stars easy!

[surreal acorn]

I loved the ending of the book lol

||I didn’t think it was anti climactic at all||

[drowsy cloud]

ooo ill scroll up nd read your thoughts, tbf i might have missed something

[acoustic panther]

ooo ill scroll up nd
read your thoughts, tbf i
might have missed something

- Zander || 32/50

[drowsy cloud]

thanks haikubot lmao

[surreal acorn]

||Like when all of Derry collapsed into the canal system? Phew||

||Definitely not anti climactic there lol||

[hazy cosmos]

FINSIHED!! I just-- mixed feelings

[drowsy cloud]

yess tbh i thought that was really interesting!! ||i think the main thing i wasnt a fan of was the thing with bill nd audra on silver at the end, that was weird af nd i didnt understand. maybe anti climactic wasnt the right word HAHA in retrospect it wasnt, i think it was just. weird? i cant explain it-||

[spring harness]

ahhh i gotta catch up on the posts!! thank you for those who stuck around and braved through this chonkkk of a book with me!

[spring harness]

@muted dust @tired linden @wraith tundra @viscid sonnet @halcyon estuary @empty trench @edgy talon @rigid jasper @empty pumice @frosty zealot @river zenith @rigid jasper
today's also the last day-is anyone still reading && needs more time? lemme know! 🤘

i have the following who have finished-anyone else i missed?
@drowsy cloud @slim ivy @hazy cosmos @surreal acorn
**IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY-please remember to post ending thoughts so you can get the points for reading with us! 🤡

thank you so so soooo much to the crew who read & stuck through this lengthy book. for first time readers, i really hope you enjoyed the story and you're happy to have checked if off of your list. this is my top #1 favorite book and i am so happy to have shared the experience with you guys ♥️

[drowsy cloud]

tysm for hosting nyxx!!! its been super fun reading along with everyone nd i absolutely loved this, more than i enjoyed the movies (nd i loved the new movies lol)