IT Stephen King Review #2

                          “We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” -Stephen King

     What makes a book strange? The book, IT, by Stephen King, is very strange. It’s not just that random people see the book, and needs to ask, “what book is that?”, I don’t say that the book is called IT, because they usually think I’m messing with them or being annoying. So I just say, “its Stephen King”, and they seem to get it.

     While reading Stephen King, it brings up a lot of old memories about the other Stephen King book I read. Which was The Shining, and mainly because it was very weird. And the themes were fairly different, because they had many differences within the book, IT says more about friendships and relationships while dealing with conflict. The Shining definitely had themes like that too. I prefer the book It mostly because I like the themes and storyline better. A creepy Shapeshifting clown that scares and eats children. Rather than a creepy serial murderer. The book, IT is laid out very well that for the most part it keeps you interested throughout the 1,153 pages it has to stay interested within

     This book has a lot of meaning, and throughout the book it explores many different themes and ideas. A lot of stuff happens. I like that it has a lot of plot and story because it allows you to learn more about the story and get more “into” the story because you know more about the scene of the book and what’s happening. This book isn’t that scary, but more mature. It has many “deep” plot-driven chapters. A lot of plot, but mostly a lot of exiting reading.

     This book isn’t all horror, and I think Stephen King wrote this book, for more of the story and mystery and rather from the gruesome death scenes. The strangeness of this book separates it from others and makes it a well-known book. It’s not weird, it’s strange. 

My experience downloading a videogame(what fun!)

”If people were influenced by video games, than most Facebook users would be farmers by now”

     Two weeks ago I was downloading a brand new Xbox game I just ordered from internet shopping. Internet shopping, like amazon, is way better than physical you know.... Human interaction.... First of all you miss all of those creepy shady people and stuff you read about and people make vines of. Really, it looks funny on screen but if you were there. Woah, trust me, you won’t want to ever go into the bright world again (outside). And lastly but not lastly, (Because I want to get this going), there’s the lines. Human lines are worse that the lines in jigsaws facial features. Believe me, I’m patient, but it’s very awkward for a kid like me to stand in line with an “all included” game in my hand while all the parents shoot me nasty looks. Oh and speaking of under age gaming, when you shop online you don’t have to dress up and look like some sort of shady emo-kid so they don’t ask for your ID. Which I don’t have.

     So I get the game and download it, it takes two days. Yunno, The usual. So I’m watching some bad movie on Netflix to pass the time when a little box pops up that says, “You need more storage space, so delete one of your brothers favorite games that you never play” or at least that’s what I thought it said. So that is exactly what I did. I went on to games section on the Xbox. I uninstalled all to Fortnite. That should be a move in like street fighter or something. “Finish him!....scroll....scroll....scroll...Scorpio used uninstall all!”.

      I put in the second storage disc because that’s how much storage it took up. When it finished I considered smashing the storage disc with a hammer or something but relished that I could sell it to some loser who through it away thinking it’s a tutorial instructions or something like that. So I log into the game and it asks if i wanted a tutorial. I say no like every other non-stepdad person in the world. So I get into the game. I spawn in. I walk around the open world for like five seconds and then get run over by a horse and carriage. The screen goes white and than black and than says in big red letters DEAD. “Ya i could tell, but thanks for clarifying”. But honestly, it’s one of my favorite parts of the game when you die, and I die a lot. You respawn and some of you money is taken away. It doesn’t matter how you die. You will be robbed of some of your money. Even if a bear whacks you, he takes like twenty dollars to buy whatever bears bought back then. You can be killed than robbed by horses, creepy men in the savanna swamp, crocodiles, protestors, children, old people, really anything. Seems a bit excessive.

What is It?

“Want a balloon?” -Pennywise, Stephen King 

     It is a shape shifting creature that was created from the wonderful mind of Stephen King. This creature has few known facts about it which is what makes this monster so mysterious. As the losers find out in the story, It cannot be killed physically or by some sort of silver bullet idea. It often shows in the form of a clown, named pennywise, this is believed to lure children into pennywises midsts so it can offer a more frightening reveal. It feeds by eating children when they are scared. Pennywise often doesn’t just appear to scare and eat people but to linger around, such as when in the book, right before the second interlude pennywise is seen helping the police capture some wanted thieves. From pennywises past habits this was a little confusing for me, so why did Stephen King add this?

IT Reflection 1

“Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!” -page 740, IT by Stephen King

    Throughout the past week, I have read a lot about Maine and 1950. This reading has been exciting and scary. After all, I’m reading IT by Stephen King. It is a fictional horror book and is 1,300 or so pages long. Over the week I read 516 pages. I finished the first two interludes. I am currently at the end of “the apocalyptic rock fight”. The first interlude was very exciting and dove into the past of the Creepy Pennywise the clowns past events and killings. Like the death of George, Adrian Mellon, and the iron works Easter egg hunt. There are a lot of great parts in it that the movie adaptation was missing.

   The second interlude was based around the reunion of the kids before you even met them. The book it set up with the second interlude, a sequel; before the prequel, which is the third interlude. This part of the book was pretty boring and sort of dragged on when all the characters receive their phone calls from Mike that IT is back. This part drags on because there is a lot of plot and information and not a lot of action. The book starts out with a lot of action and sort of dulls out as the book progresses until the reunion.

   The reunion was very interesting and also very brutal. Possibly one of the strangest parts of the book so far. This is because during this part, when the kids are all grown up, the clown needed to scare them when they were grown up so the clown resorted to some terrible things.

   This book has been very exciting and offers a lot of detail. Detail for many people can bore them, but I think it lets you picture the story better. Picturing the story in your mind is why most people read stories and novels in the first place. So a little more detail isn’t going to end you Dead.  (Little detail: over nears 500,000).