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Keep going! It's a really good book, and one of my favorites from Stephen King. Please don't give up hope yet!

Stephen King is an acquired taste. I loved It and Salem's Lot but couldn't get through The Shining or the Stand, even though I had friends who swear by them. Honestly, if you didn't think "Derry: The First Interlude" was creepy and interesting as hell.... the book is not going to get any better for you.

Get to the 1958 section. It's a little slow before that.

I love it. I read it for the first time when I was 14 and I found it amazing. It's still one of my favourite books.

Wow, what a lack of patience. The book's a doorstopper, coming in at around a thousand pages, and you're bored less than a tenth of the way through? Different strokes for different folks and all-- I was engaged from the very beginning, but then, a hundred pages for me is less than an hour's worth of reading-- but expecting a book that large to be immediately engaging for everyone who picks it up is asking a bit much.

Yeah, you kinda need to keep going. It's a long, epic book that has two time periods, a huge cast, large swaths of Derry history, and which builds up toward a dual-timelined double climax.

Not, OP, but was the vitriol necessary? I like big books too, and all, but sheesh.

Could be the novel's not OP's cup of tea. It's not about how long it would take you to read a hundred pages, it's how much you enjoy yourself while reading them. If it I'm on page 300 and I don't feel like the action is picking up, I'd go read another book.

Tbh, I haven't managed to read through the whole novel myself--but it was an issue of suspension of disbelief (I couldn't do it) rather than it's length.

Any book that takes 300 pages to "get good" is not worth it, in my opinion.

True, but I think It is interesting since the beginning. You've got at least two murders within the first 100 pages. And some creepy scenes.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-06-14 02:16 (UTC) - Expand

Sorry for having nothing constructive to add to this conversation, but the movie scared the ever-loving crap out of me as a kid and no way even at my age would I want to read this. Ahaha. But I hope if you decide to keep reading that you enjoy it, OP.

Eeeh. Personally, I liked the beginning and middle of It, back when I was in high school, but the ending was a huge disappointment.

Rereading it as an adult, I still enjoyed some of the beginning and middle pieces, but the ending (the children's ending - people who've read the book, you know what part I'm referring to) basically retroactively ruined a lot of Stephen King for me.

Except for Pet Semetary, I still love that book. And even though I like Black House a lot less than I did when I was younger, Henry remains one of my favorite characters.

In short - if you're not into it one hundred pages in, it might just not be the book for you.

Edited 2012-06-13 23:50 (UTC)

Why did it ruin his other works for you? You mean because it was so much better than his other stuff, or you just hated it that much? Just curious. It's been a long time since I've read him, but my favorites were Carrie and The Shining.

cyberghostface - 2012-06-14 00:14 (UTC) - Expand

spoilers

(Anonymous) - 2012-06-14 02:36 (UTC) - Expand

I didn't like the ending either. It seemed really silly and WTF to me even as a kid. But everything leading up to the ending is gold. I think King does a very good (and rare) job of writing children well.

Personally, I don't find the book scary, but I did find it very interesting. And I wouldn't stop reading it just yet, in case you wanna be all judgey-judgey about it when people ask you what your opinion on the story is.

honestly you might want to give it up. i found it interesting from the get-go, and it's really just more of the same.

I have gone through a similar path with that book, having read the first 400 pages nearly 10 years ago. I keep meaning to pick it up again, but never do. I did read The (unabridged) Stand, which is longer, in under a week, so I'm not put off by the length. It just got. . . kinda boring.

Color me butthurt but I'm an aspiring writer and the first and last thing I hear all the time is how your book should grab the reader and take off from page one (even line one) so that they wouldn't be able to put it down. If you're on page 100 and it still doesn't grab you you're being too generous with the author (and yes, I know who he is and all the brouhaha, it's still no excuse.)

Aspiring editor backing you up there. The only reason why Stephen King gets away with it is he's Stephen King. People in the industry have said that they'd publish his shopping list if he submitted it to a house, even though it's pretty much a given that a King novel would have a slow half somewhere in it.

Which sort of begs the question of how he got that popular in the first place, but my guess has to do with the fact that the 70's were just an unusual decade for books. (Well, that and admittedly, Carrie kicked ass.)

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cyberghostface - 2012-06-14 02:22 (UTC) - Expand

spoilers (for both It and 11/22/63 maybe?)

(Anonymous) - 2012-06-14 06:35 (UTC) - Expand

It's not my favorite of his, tbh. It's okay. But that's kind of how Stephen King is. Usually either his novels strike a chord and I enjoy them or they hit something yucky and I hate them, but that one managed to be just okay enough that I got all the way through.

My suggestion: skim. You really don't miss out much.

I didn't like It either. I found the stuff in the past was interesting but the ending was a mess (and I'm talking about more than the kiddie orgy). Plus I hated pretty much all the characters as adults.

It is overrated. The other King novels I've read were better.

To be honest, I gave up after reading about the huge arse bird. I just can't.

Funny, I just loved the first 100 pages, and I still do.

I think it starts out the story so well...

keep reading, anon! the story takes awhile to build but it is so worth it.

Most of Stephen King's monster sized books take a LONG time to build with a fantastic payoff. The Stand, Under the Dome, etc...