 Hey everyone it's Julia and welcome back to my channel and for today's video I'm going to be doing a very requested video and today I'm finally going to be doing a book review and today I'm going to be reviewing and discussing the massive it by Stephen King. So basically since my Stephen King book collection everyone asked where is it I literally got comments daily where is it have you read it Julia read it Julia please do a review on it Julia are you seeing the movie it can you do a review on that too which I love you I'm glad that you guys most of you at least or some of you respect my opinion I want to hear my thoughts I really appreciate that it means a lot to me it was just really funny getting that response because I've never really had that response and I've never had a video that requested so today we're gonna be talking about it I already did see the film I have my movie review linked when it goes live somewhere down below probably instead of on the screen because down below down below talk about the book I liked it was good I'm happy with it and the video done no um so for the book it comes out I'm so proud that I finished this book and as you can see I'm very hyped because I was sitting here for 40 minutes filming my movie reviews so I'm a little like oh my god I need to do something else but I do have to film this so this was massive this is by far the biggest book I've ever read it's claimed that's a word it's um the scariest book I've ever read I don't get scared from books but this was like the creepiest book I've ever read or yeah yeah like I wasn't terrified it's not giving me nightmares but like I don't get scared that easy so yeah but it was the scariest king I've ever read and it was the scariest book that I've ever read and it's the biggest book I've ever read so claimed a lot of prizes awards so yeah I tabbed it like crazy we'll go over my color coding system because I'm sure you all care about my color coding system so basically I wanted to heavily tab I wanted to heavily I wanted to heavily tab this book so I can you know okay you know it's just my thing so blue was for characters which I used a lot just details about the characters I wanted to note or just some lines about the characters that I really love some characters that I really love things like that orange was for themes which I recorded a lot of themes there's a lot of important topics in this book such as abuses a topic there's obviously a topic of fear and there's just so many topics that this book explores which I really like seeing um yellow is for quotes that I just liked and I wanted to note so yes green there's only a few of them but that was for references so any references that I saw to other Stephen King books I noted in it and last but not least pink was for any penny wise moments or any moments that were like something that Penny wise did or something that was a con like something that you know just anything penny wise related I mostly tabbed it so those are my tabs suck but so if you don't know it I just wanted to it knowing that it that it oh my god how many times I'm gonna say it in this video um I just went into it knowing that it is went into this book knowing that it's about a clown and that's supposed to be really scary that's all I know it's all I knew I kind of so just going into it that way but I knew it received so much praise and I knew is a lot of people's favorite King book which is definitely made into my top three for sure if you do want to know more I will say it right now that this book is about a clown named Penny wise who comes back every 27 years to make cause chaos in the town of Derry main which is a small town and there's these group of friends they're called like the losers which I love them all I think their gang is perfect like if you like books like The Outsiders or that movie what's it called the one with River Phoenix where they're like a group of friends and you can really see their bond in their relationship it was like that and really good but they're the group called the losers and they experience some things with this clown and they constantly hear about kids going missing and all these things happening and they try to investigate and that's all we know and then fast forward 27 years later they get contacted to go back to Derry to deal with it again because it's come back and they've been oath when they were kids that if it ever came back they would go back to Derry to deal with the whole situation so this book goes between past and present and it's really nice to see we switched a lot between past and present like mid-sentence we're switching which it was a little bit at first it was tough to follow and definitely at times when it switched mid-sentence I was like oh my god so much yeah but I definitely like them when they were kids better that's just my opinion sometimes I like the adult point of view more but most of them I like the kid point of view it was really just nice and you got to see their friendship and yes the characters in this books 10 out of 10 I loved them they were so flushed out in the book the movie differs a little bit for me because I've kind of have more favorites in the movie like it changes a little bit but in the book my favorites were well I love them all but my favorites were Pennywise of course Bill and of course Georgie too but Bill and Richie I loved them so much Henry was also became a favorite as like a villain point of view not as like oh my god I love you um Pennywise let's talk about him I think he was really well done I think he was creepy definitely the film was a little bit more like it was scary than the book this person because I do get more scared from films than books the films didn't terrify me but like there was some creepy scenes and same with the book there is some creepy scenes so if you're afraid of clowns basically talking about Bill he is like one of the first people we see his name is stuttering Bill or big Bill and in the book he's really like almost the leader of this group or that's how I interpreted it that he's that Bill like help keep the group together and he helped guide them which in the film it's a bit different but we're not talking about the film so I really liked Bill I really admired him it really made me sad seeing Georgie's death which is his younger brother that happens very early on in the book that his little brother Georgie goes out with a paper boat which I'm sure you've seen that especially in advertisements to that little boat and he has his yellow jacket on his raincoat and he goes outside he puts it in the stream and it flows and it goes down the drain and then Pennywise is there so yeah that part like oh my gosh 10 at 10 but the characters were great Bill was one of my favorites Richie added so much comic relief especially in the film we're not talking about the film the book though he added a lot of comic relief he was really funny he made a lot of jokes and I was really happy about his character Stan was another one that I really liked he's like the Jewish boy they make a lot of like Jewish stereotypical jokes which again I could see how it pissed some people off but I personally didn't take them seriously that's just me I actually don't support any like things but they're kids and they're like joking around he's laughing to like they're like oh just make a lot of money and then they all start laughing they're just kids and I didn't mind seeing that and I just thought like Stan was like a really like they were also different in the group and I was really happy to see like so much different themes and diversity in that group then we have Beverly who in the book I really liked I think it was good to have a female in the group and it was good just I don't know I felt like we're not talking about the film Julia I felt like in the film know that they were like so much more obsessed with her than in the book but Ben is adorable in the book not as much as the film in the film he's really cute just saying he's like a little angel but the characters in this book are amazing they're so fleshed out I'm sure I'm not gonna forget these characters these are definitely characters that are gonna stick with me for a while in this book I did enjoy the passing present again sometimes it was a little much but then at times it was done very well and I also thought the scary moments were doing well as well the book took me forever to read which I don't like I wasn't happy about it but it is a massive book and it took me a while to read I was reading books on the side it took me over a month and I was reading other things on the side now it's finishing other things on the side but I wish I just took a week and just read it just or two three weeks just read the whole thing then spacing it out as much as I did it wasn't because I wasn't enjoying it it was just a lot and then at times knew that especially the end I didn't want to end so I didn't want to read it because I was like I don't want it to be over and then when it was over I was like it's over tears definitely could they have cut a lot of stuff out like could they it didn't need to be this long no that's just my opinion it didn't need to be this long but it is so I can't do anything about that maybe my enjoyment would have been different if it was shorter I'm not talking like 300 pages but I don't know maybe like 600 or 800 then 1150 pages but again still a great book just my thoughts look I really liked I really like the small town of course is taking place in Maine it's a in a town called Dairy I thought all of that was done very well references in this book and I know I didn't catch all of them which I wish I would have paid more attention to all the references but there's a few that I caught like I caught the Shawshank Redemption mention with the prison I caught that I haven't read the Shawshank Redemption but I definitely know about it so I caught that part and I also call caught the the shining reference when they referred to Dick Holler and which I was so happy to see it maybe so happy and I know there was more references and I didn't tap them all but there was some so yeah definitely I would suggest reading this book especially before seeing the movie the book in my opinion was very well done again just some cons with it were just pacing and I know I might get some backlash for saying that and it's not cuz I'm lazy and I don't want to read this big of a book cuz I did finish the whole thing I am super proud that I did read this much and this many pages and let me tell you takes a lot of dedication don't fight me on this it was overall a great story I just don't think it need to be this long I didn't deduct much ratings for that and like I didn't like deduct like two stars for it but this book is around like a four four point five star for me it's definitely my top three king I don't know if I would rate like the shining Mr. Mercedes and then it but like then again like it is kind of better than the shining in Mr. Mercedes like I don't know how to feel about it so it's definitely between like a four and a five star read for me it's a solid read and it's in my top three but I don't exactly know where it stands because the shining has a special place in my heart and so does Mr. Mercedes so I don't know but it was a great book I'm glad you guys like forced me to read it and I would suggest it if you haven't read it but that was my review on it by Stephen King let me know your thoughts in the comments down below I'd also love to know which edition of this book do you have because they have a lot of pretty editions of it this is my favorite but they've come out with some new ones that I love that are really nice like the new movie one I want and the what is it the one with the balloon which is probably like so any of them but I want more copies of this book because I really enjoyed it and I even kind of craft a spine a little bit on but yeah this was great by the way if you're gonna read this you might want to get a mass market unless you hate my mark but I wish I had a mass market because I started tabbing this so I was not just gonna switch to mass market because I already tabbed like so much of this book so I didn't but bringing this around with me was hell like carrying this like there was a point where I spent 15 minutes trying to fit this thing into my school bag because I wanted to read at school boy so like there was a time where I had my like 40 pound bag on my back because you know school and then I was holding this running around the hall so definitely it is a pain to carry around and I was happy that I read the bulk of it well I read not the bulk of it I read did read a chunk during August so it wasn't like you know all at school you know what I mean so I just definitely suggest maybe getting the mass market to read it if you're comfortable with mass markets just because it is a pain to halt like to carry around or I'd even recommend getting an e-book on your phone so if you're on the go you can read it there as well again let me know your thoughts down below I'm blabbering this is a weird video thank you guys so much for 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