rereading it

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 If I'm speaking realistically, IT by Stephen King is one of the books I've read the most times. There have been years when I've read it three, four times in a year... if I look at Goodreads, I have read this book at least ten times. Which is a lot of times for any book, let alone a book that is roughly 1100 pages long. 

And so right now I'm re-reading it. It came up in the book wall, I was like hell yeah, it's taking me a while but it is 1100 pages long so I can take a few days on it, and goddam does it feel like home. I know these kids so, so well; so many scenes in this book are so, so good. I know a lot of people have read this book; it's obviously massively popular and the adaptations in the late 2010s obviously helped that out a lot. And like, yeah, those were great adaptations. 

I also love the 90s miniseries, to be clear. 

But this book. This book! God it's great! It's got fucking everything! Everything you would want from a horror novel! And some stuff you might not want! 

Everything!

Part of this is definitely that I first read this book as a young high schooler. I loved it then. I love it now. I've loved it every time I've read it. I've never gotten sick of it. I've moved on to a lot of horror writers who are objectively speaking much better writers than Stephen King but still--Stephen King is home. And I don't think any book exemplifies that more than IT. 

also i gotta give it at least partial credit for my clown thing

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