I had some issues at times that there was some waffling (it can happen in a King novel), and there was a really questionable cop out ultimately with Tom Rogan (for reals?! After all that?!) and Henry Bowers, and I really wanted answers about what happened to Mike Hanlon’s family farm, considering his dad worked real hard on it and made some smart financial decisions for Mike. It also goes from that and delivers all the gore, blood and guts you could hope for in the final third of the book – you get your blood and you get a story with heart, so it is a pretty good double whammy. I truly enjoyed how this is a book about growing up, friends, fears, reality, abuse, hopes and dreams – heck, just know it has a lot of themes it deals with, and plenty drama. The friendship between these kids is great, too. You see the encounters come as they are adults, and you make the discoveries with the adult versions of these kids as they make them, and I liked that bit of storytelling. It skips between 19, and the stories unfold concurrently, which I think is great. Bill, Eddie, Richie, Mike, Ben, Beverly, Stan, each of them had something unique going on.
The book serves as a constant reminder for the phenomenal character building King can do – each one of these kids brought something to the table with them. After each character is introduced to us, you rapidly develop an understanding of their personalities, and can easily discern each from the other – they all have a distinctive voice. Right off the bat, Stephen King is a master storyteller, someone who can really weave a tale to draw you in, and It is no exception. My problem? Reading snatches of it on the tube every day (when I change three times) is not conducive to slipping into a rhythm. I spent a chunk of September reading this because, aside from being a massive book, it takes time to hit a rhythm, but when you do it flows.
Stephen king graveyard shift screenit movie#
Man, oh man! I have been itching for a Stephen King novel for some time now recently (ask Natasha, I have been putting off rereading 11/22/63 – it will happen sometime soon), and decided the other day screw it, let’s do It, what with the movie coming and all.
Until they were called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirred and coiled in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality. – via Goodreads The horror of IT was deep-buried, wrapped in forgetfulness. Time passed and the children grew up, moved away. The adults, knowing better, knew nothing. Sometimes IT reached up, seizing, tearing, killing. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one’s deepest dread. It was the children who saw – and felt – what made Derry so horribly different. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. The story was adapted into a film in 1990.SYNOPSIS: To the children, the town was their whole world. The other team on the surface wonders what has happened to them and descends into the basement. The men are then eaten by the rat creatures. The men eventually come across a sub-basement, locked from the inside, that harbors something more terrifying and hideous than any of the men could have dreamed - a cow-sized mother rat with no eyes or legs, whose only purpose is to breed more mutant rats. Some have even gained rudimentary flight. This rat empire, cut off from the rest of nature, has allowed the animals to evolve into a strange and varied combination of vicious mutant creatures. The basement of the old mill has been abandoned for decades, and over the years, a monumental infestation of rats has taken hold. The story was originally published in the October 1970 issue of Cavalier, and was later included in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. Posteriorly included in the 1980 anthology The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories.Ī young drifter named Hall, has been working at a decrepit textile mill in the small town of Gates Falls, Maine when his boss, a cruel taskmaster, recruits him and others to assist with a massive cleaning effort. " Graveyard Shift" is a short story written by Stephen King.
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