Sarah’s Comments (group member since Aug 11, 2021)

Sarah’s comments from the "It" Book Club! group.

2) my current theory about the nature of IT and the evil of Derry relates to - and bear with me - a flower.
The way I learned it in school is that flowers are pretty and smell nice to draw insects which are carrying the pollen they need to reproduce ... so from that perspective, IT spreads an aura of hate, bigotry, abuse etc. as a means to get the fear it needs.

Ronnie wrote: "It’s absolutely no problem at all!

Sarah and Cora, it’s so nice to meet you! Oh man, The Shining and Misery were both awesome books. Misery scared my socks off to the point where I had to stop re..."

I had the same reaction to Misery, it's the first book I have ever needed to put down for a while because I needed a break from it so I was really impressed by that (the only other one was Alexievich's Chernobyl Prayer but for entirely different reasons) and I'm with ya on Dr Sleep as well. It might be my favourite King book so far. Carrie is also on my list but I have yet to find a nice copy to buy (or an english copy in the library). I read the Stand and IT as an ebook though, because at some point a book can become too big to read comfortably. although I do have a beautiful copy of IT in my own language, which I'll probably never read

Okay, so I'm going to hold off on answering Q1 because I have only just started reading the book this morning and am still meeting the characters

regarding 2) it's a bit of a story. I'd always been intrigued by horror but but always backed out of actually watching it last minute ... until the Summer of 2019 and IT was actually one of the 1st (possibly The 1st) horror movie I actually watched with the purpose of watching a horror (if that makes sense). Then, I started an entire catch-up journey but IT always struck a pecular cord with me for some reason. So, then I decided to read it last Summer when I was reading the Stand but then the academic year started and I got caught up in those books ... so yeah, here we are. I also read some other books by King in that period, in order (don't ask why I remember it or why I'm mentioning it now because I don't actually know myself) : Bazaar of Bad Dreams The Shining, Doctor Sleep, Revival and Misery

4) Hell Yeah! I've been waiting almost a year to finally read this book!!