Book 3: It

This was quite the long read. As usual King obsesses over the little details and really piles on the backstory. It has the same theme as Dreamcatcher; a group of adults meet up again after being separated for so long to fight in one epic attempt to purge evil. Of course, someone dies early on (I’m still a bit bitter that Beaver died in Dreamcatcher) and of course the main character is a writer.

By now you would think that I hated the book. Au contraire, I loved it! Well, I didn’t love it all the time, there were times when I asked myself “Is this chapter necessary? I bet it isn’t” and then after finishing the book, I realized that it really wasn’t necessary. *sadface* But I really did love it. I enjoyed the thrills, the suspense, and the downright wrong and disgusting things I had to face by reading the book.

One thing that I would probably never be able to forget about this book is a kid by the name of Patrick Hockstetter. I was in the office that time, reading on the green couch we have over there. And then I started reading about Patrick Hockstetter stroking his friend’s penis. These are kids by the way. 11? Not sure.

So I was a bit irked but I sucked it in (lololol) and figured this too, shall pass. And then came the next few scenes where King lovingly described how Patrick killed his baby brother by smothering the baby’s head in a pillow.

My stomach wanted to give in and I was murmuring stuff like “no, oh god, no no please no.. oh god oh god oh god” Good thing my officemate was used to me reacting loudly like that whenever I read.

But Patrick’s adventures did not end there. He also tortured bugs, pricked their little bodies and then played squishy games with roadkill. He also locked dogs and cats and other animals inside a fridge and got a hard-on in watching them die a slow and agonizing death.

Good god.

The book was good, though. It totally reeled me in. So much so that I puked a little bit of what I ate after reading Hockstetter’s affair with the leeches. After reading this, I had this overwhelming urge to watch the movie adaptation. I wonder if they included Hockstetter in it. Hmm.

Now that I’m done with It, I am starting with the graphic novel craze. I’ve finished reading Identity Crisis and Day of Vengeance and I have 2 or 3 more graphic novels lined up before I jump to Murakami. And Preacher. And Barthes. OMG I have so much reading to do! Not complaining though.

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