 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Stephen King book review today. We are talking about my favorite Stephen King book of all time It yeah Okay, so I'm this is a big old heavy bastard. So I'm gonna put this back here in front of later All right, so it is a story of seven friends who come together over I believe it's the summer And they know they're they're running rampant having fun It is a very in-depth character piece about these seven people pretty much six for the most part of the book, but when they're kids, it's all seven of them and the the In an entire group it is some of the best character work steve I would say it's the best character work Stephen King has ever done It is his most iconic creature in the entity known as it or Pennywise Which is mostly for the most part it shows presents itself to people as a clown But it does feed off fear So it will change into the wolf man or the mummy or many different things even a gigantic bird for one of them there's so many things that the entity known as it changes into and That is not my favorite part about it the horror and the monster I love Pennywise to death I think both Tim Curry and scars guard did a fantastic job You know being terrifying clowns and being dirt terrifying monsters But my favorite part about this book is the characters and and the writing I think the book is written beautifully. I don't think there is any unnecessary detail throughout the whole thing Yes, it is a thousand page book But I love every single page of it except for the scene that everyone always talks about There is a scene in there where there's kids involved in adult situations That everybody complains about and I fully understand and support your complaints But I don't think that it ruins a thousand page book In fact every time I talk about it in my mind it gets shorter and longer It's like sometimes I think it's five pages something sometimes I think it's just like a paragraph or two in my mind It changes I have read the book 18 times I finally stopped after I read the Goldfinch and I've been reading that one over and over again Like, you know five to ten pages a night that kind of thing when I find You know books this special I Love to dissect them and find out what I like about them so much without any spoilers My favorite scene in this book as far as the horror It's one of the most disturbing scenes in the book and that is when Ben is on the bridge Ben Hanscom is my favorite character, of course, because I'm a fat dude. I was a fat kid I was 11 pounds 12 ounces when I was born So I've been fat all my life. So of course I gravitate to to To Ben I also love Richie Tozier The the reason why I love Richie Tozier is because I tend to love puns and bad jokes and all that stuff I'm foul mouthed and all that So I especially love rich, you know Richie Tozier for those aspects Bill Bev Mike Eddie Stan, I mean there's there's so many great characters here I could go on and on and on about them but again what makes this special is what they go through and how they have to come together as friends and the the way they Change so much from childhood to adulthood if you have not read the book the the book bounces back and forth between 1956 and 80 something it's 27 years cycle is what happens in here but the the book has the also the best opening of any Stephen King book With the fate of Georgie Denbrough the main one of the main characters little brothers Bill Denbrough's big bill Big Bill Denbrough his little brother Georgie and how he meets Pennywise It is a terrifying Opening chapter, especially since it involves a very young child There another favorite part of mine not because of what happens, but because it was it was progressive for King to To showcase what happens to Adrian Mellon Especially during that time frame, you know how people didn't care because it was he was him and his boyfriend You know, they were gay The it was it would I love that King Included that and I know the movie got some flack for including it But I think it's important to show those things To talk about, you know real life horrors and the the terrible nature of some people and how hateful they can be I don't like what happens to Adrian and his boyfriend, but it's I still do like the scene I love all of the flashbacks, especially the acts section all that stuff and There's been rumors that King is working on some kind of sequel or whatever But I think it's more along the lines of other books tying into It or having entities like it in it If it bleeds the outsider later, you know, there's so many so many different ones That there is also something to talk about in how King handles Native American culture and you know how He uses the magic in there for the ritual of chud. I don't want to go too far into it I have no opinion on it. If it's bad if you think it's bad, then you think it's bad If you think it's good and you'd like to you think I have no opinion on it whatsoever I did I didn't find any issue with the way that he used it. I do like the scene That it's in you know that involves it I'm trying to think of anything else that really you know pieces. I haven't read it in three years I read it 18 times back to back to back to back to back back Like I said, I would read like five or ten pages a night I mean, I would stop sometimes in mid chapter and then pick it back up I have whole sections of this book memorized As far as not not the words but exactly, you know note by note by note I think the last time I reread it was I finished it just before the 2017 reboot. I think that's the year came out That was a highlight of my year Andy machete did a terrific job with that one This book means a lot to me the first time that I read it I was very young in fact the scene that everybody talks about it went completely over my head I had no idea what had happened in that scene And it wasn't until years later that I read it again, and then I just kept reading and I finally Noticed all the nuances all the important details now is that seeing bad? Yeah, it's it's bad It's very uncomfortable to read But also there's a purpose for it, you know, they have to grow up. They have to break the magic They have to you know, there's so many different reasons for it and King has his reasons but I think that the I think the movie version in 2017 did a really good job of it and so did the The old one 95 or whatever it was the one with Tim Curry. I think he did a good job excluding Excuse me excluding that scene too, but uh, it's I have not found a single book in all these years That has meant as much to me as it means to me And it's because of those characters the Losers Club will stay with me probably the rest of my life And I love Stephen King for that and I will be a constant reader for the rest of my life Because of that. But anyways, have you read it? I'm sure you have or you've at least tried It's one of the most iconic novels ever written Have you read it? If you have let me know if you loved it if you hated it if you felt meh about it Especially if you felt meh about it like this is just whatever I'd love to know why so explain yourself in detail so that we can have a discussion down there in the doobly-doo But until next time I have been a you've been you this has been another Stephen King book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye