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Discussing our favourite and creepiest characters and themes in IT and related works (from a thread started in /b/ of all places). GO!

>> No.1061809

LOL, /b/ OP topic starter, you beat me to it, awesome

>> No.1061810

>>1061809

let's do this! now I'm not afraid of this shit 404'ing

>> No.1061812

Do you remember the freaky parts from the history of Derry? I thought the freakiest was when all the men of Derry showed up in the late 30's and blasted the one gang.... alot of them remembered seeing a clown in a white shirt and overalls

>> No.1061813

>>1061812

Yeah and there's a mysterious orange pompom thing left behind in all the carnage.

>> No.1061814

Seeing as I haven't seen this is the original thread:

We all float down here....

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>>1061814

Ungh in even sorry gais

>> No.1061817

>>1061810

Silly /b/tards, nothing ever 404's on /lit/. We've got a 6 day thread going right now

>> No.1061818

>>1061813
No, one of the guys remembers the clown leaning out of the window (he says,"Far more then gravity shoulda allowed, he was level out the window with his knees over window seal") but something didnt strike him right for over 3 weeks till he woke up in the middle of the night and realized... the shoot out had happened at 1 to 2 o'clock, and the clown hadnt cast a shadow

>> No.1061820

>>1061814
you probably dont want to see the original thread

>> No.1061822

>>1061820

I've seen the original, I meant I hadn't seen: we all float down here written anywhere, might of just been being unobservant mind...

>> No.1061823

i knew it was going to die once it came to /lit/, the idea of a creature that personifies its targets deepest secrets is beyond their entertainment

>> No.1061835

Damn I was really enjoying the original, best thread I've seen on /b/ in a long time.

>> No.1061838

>>1061835
i know... i thought we had a serious convo going here

>> No.1061853

lit failed to live up to its name

>> No.1061855

>>1061853
You fail to understand how slow this board is.

>> No.1061866

I read half of it, I'd read a lot of King before (this was when I was 15 maybe) but I couldn't read anymore, found it too boring, nothing was happening.

>> No.1061889

I read it very, very quickly for me (200 pages a day). I thought the multiple plot hooks and the character development of the children were excellent (the adult versions were less entertaining). It could have done with more editing, but nonetheless up until the last 150 pages or so I thought I was reading his best full-length novel (Different Seasons ftw).

What really sucks about it is that King couldn't figure out how to make the final boss fight live up to all the foreshadowing. So he delayed for as long as humanly possible, and then we get Shelob-meets-Lovecraft with everything described in a way that makes it impossible to take seriously. Biting on IT's tongue and flying through space while chanting a nursery rhyme? Sure, why not.

It would have worked better if the final monster had had anything to do with the earlier clown version which had been It's main form. But no.

The child gangbang was fucking stupid as well, totally out of nowhere, but by that time I was already well and truly let down.

>> No.1061902

>>1061889

Nothing can beat the disappointment of The Dark Tower's boss fight. I was dismayed.

>> No.1062109

>>1061866

>IT
>nothing happening

>> No.1062143

>>1061889
Indeed, with a better ending this would've been his true masterpiece. But King seems to have problems with endings in general.

>> No.1062158

>>1062143
I know, he does great masterpieces of setups and then tears everything apart in glorious detail and then the ending seem to be expected and rushed.

>> No.1062163

The Tommyknockers is one of King's better books.

>> No.1062173

The Regulators is one of my favorites. I cringed a few times.

>> No.1062213 [DELETED] 

This is the only Stephan King book that I put down half way through.

>> No.1062222

This is the only Stephen King book that I put down half way through.

>> No.1062239

>>1061902

What pissed me off more is Flagg going down the way he did: like a fucking chump. Jesus, I almost hated King for that.

>> No.1062243

>>1062239
>>1061902
The Dark Tower's ending itself was fucking TERRIBLE. Seven books' worth of anticipation and foreshadowing just for Roland to get sucked back to the beginning of his quest. Plot resolution? Fuck that!

Fuck you, King.

>> No.1062249

>>1062243
No, It was wonderful. An essential quest for perfection.

Also, he didn't get sucked back to the start.

The second start was different.

>> No.1062252

>>1062249
no it wasnt faggot it was word for word identical

>> No.1062253

>>1062243
>kharmic cycle
>2derp4u

>> No.1062636

>>1062252

Somebody didn't notice the Horn of Gilead.

>> No.1062701

>read thread
>Dark Tower series irreparably spoiled.

>> No.1062710

>>1062249
>>1062253
So what? We didn't get to see what was at the top of the Tower, for no good reason. That's why I'm pissed.