The BOOK/MOVIE Club discussion

Discuss your thoughts on Stephen King's It with us here!

I attempted reading IT a few years ago, and only read about half before I put it down. I finally picked it up again and can now scratch all 1,158 pages off of my TBR list, bucket list, life accomplishments list, King list, basically all the list.. you get it.

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(view spoiler)[ Can we talk about the weird pre-teenage sexual intercourse? I definitely didn't predict that to be the method to escape the sewage tunnels for the Loser's club as children. I researched a few interviews from Stephen King regarding that particular passage, copied below, what are your thoughts?

"I wasn’t really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood –1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don’t remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children–we think we do, but we don’t remember it as it really happened. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It’s another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library. Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues.

Vulture reached out to King’s agent for confirmation on the statement, and he responded, “That sounds like my statement.” He added: “To it I’d just add that it’s fascinating to me that there has been so much comment about that single sex scene and so little about the multiple child murders. That must mean something, but I’m not sure what.”

Vulture - Stephen King

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I just recently finished reading IT for a second time fantastic although r=w remembered chunks of it from last time I really enjoyed the end a lot more although first time around I was reading it on holiday and was running out of time and I had to rush at the end back then 12 hour days at work - I couldn't read much hop I did that spoiler thing right ! not sure how it works

Matthew wrote: "I just recently finished reading IT for a second time fantastic although r=w remembered chunks of it from last time I really enjoyed the end a lot more although first time around I was reading it ..."

It was definitely a fantastic read! I enjoyed reading about each individuals story, and the differences/similarities from their childhood to their adulthood. Especially the emphasis on the fears developed as children. I really enjoyed both movies as well (early 90's and last years.) Have you seen the films?

i agree with you there and the flash back with dick holaron from the shining , yeah i love the 1990 adaption there's hundreds of bits adapted from the book , the dam scene , officer Nell , the pharmacist telling Eddie about his medicine and much more . the movie not so much it barely had any thing to do with the book other than georges death poor mikes plot and lines were given to ben , for some reason Beverly seemed to be like 16 and really sexed up - all the kids at school calling her a hore and all the monsters that scared the kids , not sure were they came from , wasnt impressed by pennywise mostly being cgi . if kings book didnt exist it would be ok i guess but ive seen it six times now and cant stop thinking every few seconds - no thats wrong and so on . now i get movies cant portray the book 100 percent but it 2017 was a huge over hall i mean bowers dying at the bottom of that well , whos going to stab mike i part 2 ? stuff like that isnt brilliant for the continuity. it would have been so much better if they did it they way they they did 11.22.63 - 10 episodes or so with varying running time and being based on the book

although the movies time setting is wrong for when the story took place I do like how they got the types of cars right and all the posters of films and the movies they had on at the cinema

Matthew wrote: "i agree with you there and the flash back with dick holaron from the shining "

I did not even catch that reference! Thank you for pointing that out about Dick Hallorann! I forget that King always cross references his novels. Yes the 1990 film covered the book more and it's a classic in itself all together. Tim Curry <3.. The 2017 film - I did enjoy that they included the rock fight, but the scene was more impactful in the book, and felt rushed in the film. Beverley DID seem way too old compared to the book, and definitely over sexualized. She is a rebellious yet innocent character that was and wasn't portrayed correctly. There were times (like confronting her father) that she seemed to be this young girl, but it wasn't captured that way throughout the entirety of the film. Also, Bowers! He is important for Chapter 2, so WTF are they going to do now? I did appreciate the actor who played Bowers though, he played the bully role very well, and I did like how they showed his struggle with his father. Although it really didn't make sense that they made Butch Bowers a cop, instead of a farmer, hence the rivalry between Henry and Mike.. I'm very curious to see what will happen with chapter 2, and I'm hoping it will be true to the novel. Less CGI and more novel based writing! I am late to the game on 11.22.63 I need to read and watch both, but I've heard amazing reviews!

i agree with you fully there , whats amazing is that you understood my spelling of dicks name , yeah i think curry is brilliant too and thats the way he was portrayed in the book too like ronald mcdonald , i cant wait for the documentary - pennywise the story of it , over 2 hours of un seen footage from the 1990 it adaption . yeah i love 11.22.63 i haven't read it yet but i go with the fact that purely being a series it has more time to show story content

Matthew wrote: "whats amazing is that you understood my spelling of dicks name."

Google corrected my original spelling when I was researching his reference in IT ..LOL ..damn Google!

I also didn't know that there is a documentary coming out about the 1990 adaptation!! I'm about to look that up..That sounds fantastic!

If you ever read 11.22.63 let me know! I have the show on my long list of TV/movie watching... I'll definitely watch it sometime soon now though!

same here , will do , i found out about the documentary before the movie came out at the cinema so its been a long wait for me , i saw the advert for the documentary on you tube ages ago its from i think its from the same people who did the pet sematary documentary

I didn't know there was a Pet Sematary documentary either, I will have to check this one out too. Is it on YouTube?

not sure I paid a couple of pounds for it on iTunes

I found it on Amazon Prime Video, awesome! Thank you for the recommendation, Pet Sematary is one of my all time favs.. who's isn't it though right??

your welcome I wish there is a release date for the pennywise one though , I love the movie , cant waite to read the book

Pet Sematary is on my TBR list too.. among many King books. I had to take a little break after reading IT though LOL

lol me to thats why im reading the ritual

Matthew wrote: "lol me to thats why im reading the ritual"

The Ritual sounds like a pretty good read!

its brilliant so far im nearly half way in 🙄

Have fun reading! I added it to my list too

will do , I hope you enjoy it when you get to reading it

Matthew wrote: "will do , I hope you enjoy it when you get to reading it"

I finally watched the Pet Semetary documentary, and it was absolutely fascinating! Just thought I would share! Thanks again for the recommendation!

i thought it was brilliant too , im looking forward to viewing it again , im glad you enjoyed it !