BTW, it kind of blows my mind that back in 2007, you left a comment on my original website. I wasn’t a reader then, and who knew that nearly 15 years later, you would be replying to a BOOK review on my site! Wild, haha. I plan to write video game reviews again (my last post was about a Super Famicom wrestling game actually), but I am currently on a reading rampage, so my passion will reflect that on RVG.

As much as I love Pennywise as a character, I found it tough to be afraid of him, as he kept taking the forms of monsters from movies I saw on Mystery Science Theater 3000. I think we can agree that the creatures from “The Crawling Eye” and “Teenage Werewolf” are not especially scary.

The book only gripped me at its end, when Pennywise’s ultimate form was revealed, and things got super trippy. I was disappointed that the second film didn’t swing for the fences, and reveal IT’s origins in the Macroverse. I would have loved to see how it handled IT’s attempt to drag the Losers into the next dimension. I guess that would have been too drastic a shift in tone for most audiences, though.

Despite all my complaints, though, I agree that IT is a milestone in horror fiction, by virtue of its scope and imagination. King didn’t hold anything back with IT, and I respect that.