At some point Pennywise says, “What child doesn’t love a clown?” Umm… Me, and almost every person I know. They are creepy. Period.
The build up of the story is great. I thought the shifts between the action of the characters as kids to the present action as adults was handled very well and also succeeded in pushing the plot along. Some parts were very over written but this is Stephen King we are talking about. In fact there were so many long, drawn out chase scenes I was able to skim quite a bit and get my reading over faster. Because the fact is, I wanted it to be over. Not because I didn’t like it, but because I didn’t like to read it before I went to sleep.
The problem I had was that the build up was so good that the ending just could never live up. I thought things got drawn out and then also went to a silly quasi-philosophical place, but ultimately the ending was ruined by a scene that was totally out of character, out of place, and, frankly, out of line. The character of Bev was really ruined by the scene and there was no reason for it.
Long story (literally), short: It was a fun, scary read, that I would never recommend
because it went somewhere it really didn’t need to go.
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