Hi! My name is Fae and I’m a Community Librarian for Fresno County Public Library. I’m determined to have the best summer ever by doing the Fresno County Public Library Summer Challenge and sharing my experiences with you on this blog.
#33-Read for 60 minutes.
Because I was scarring
myself and I needed it to be over. . .
#28-Write a book review.
It took me all summer, but
I finally finished! Here is my review of IT by Stephen King.
Growing up is hard for
anyone. Your friendships change, your body changes, your mind changes. The
moments between childhood and adulthood can be strange and frightening under
the best of circumstances. If you happen to be growing up in Derry, Maine, the
circumstances are not good. In a small city in New England, the fears of
childhood are not imagined or symbolic, they are real and they are evil. For
longer than anyone can remember, strange things have happened in Derry and children disappear
never to be seen alive again. For generations, the grownups of Derry have
looked the other way as a demonic force controls their lives, but when a group
of 11 year olds is brought together by chance and fate an epic battle ensues and destroys
the evil IT. . . except that it doesn’t. Decades later, this same group of friends,
now adults living with the complicated fallout of their childhood nightmares,
is brought back to their hometown to try and save themselves and Derry one
final time.
In IT, Stephen King creates
the perfect monster in the closet. IT has no name and no shape. IT is simply
what we fear. Stephen King created a horror masterpiece around the scars we all
carry from childhood. The anxiety and fear of long-buried pain and forgotten
trauma create an atmosphere of dread, unlike many other novels I’ve experienced.
While I felt that the story could suffer from too many ideas stuffed together,
and I'm still struggling with a major plot point toward the end, there is a
reason that IT has endured as a modern classic for more than 30 years. If
you want to truly scare yourself, I couldn’t recommend it more.
This really was the best
summer ever. Thanks for coming along for the ride!
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