Cover Artist Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as not interested. William 'Stuttering Bill' Denbrough: Also known as "Big Bill." Mr. King kind of rocks when it comes to his characters. Logic, order, and cleanliness are deeply ingrained in his psyche. Bill finds his childhood Schwinn, "Silver", and brings it to Mike's home. Ben as a mummy holding balloons, Eddie as a leper offering him a blowjob, Bill as Georgie's ghost, Richie as a werewolf, Stan as two drowned boys in the local standpipe and Beverly as a fountain of blood spurting from her bathroom sink. It is thought to draw power from causing extreme fear in the victim's moment of death, and as many people fear being eaten more deeply than simply being killed, It's intimate tie to fear is probably what causes It to eat some of its victims' bodies. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. With every new reading I disc. "The Losers Club" borns that way, and this is their story. He physically abuses Bev; it is implied that he does this because of his incestuous feelings toward her (IT states this to her outright when she returns to Derry as an adult). Tom has a very predatory view of women and he thrives on the control he has over his vulnerable wife. The bullies are left defeated and embarrassed and an injured Henry swears revenge on The Losers Club before departing. He's believed to be a professional grade baseball batter. ), [And so I was so heartbroken when he was killed by IT. He inflicts many acts of cruelty and humiliation upon the Losers during and before the summer of '58, such as attempting to carve his name onto Ben Hanscom's stomach (though he only gets as far as the first letter), ceaselessly mocking Bill Denbrough's pronounced stutter, harassing Beverly and threatening her with sexual violence, killing Mike Hanlon's dog and bathing Mike in mud to make him a "tar baby", breaking Eddie Kaspbrak's arm, pursuing Richie Tozier through town, and white-washing Stan Uris' face in snow until it bleeds. Fuck you, Stephen King. Bill becomes part of a group of other children, all who have had run ins with It and together they get rid of It. They are arrested and charged with murder when the victim's mutilated corpse is found. Ben and Beverly realize their love for one another and become a couple, leaving Derry together. This Book Is A Dungeon has it all and more. In 1990, Tommy Lee Wallace directed a two-part miniseries starring Tim Curry. 5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book. "Or so Bill Denbrough sometimes thinks on those early mornings after dreaming, when he almost remembers his childhood, and the friends with whom he shared it.". To distract IT and bring Bill and Richie back, Eddie runs towards IT and uses his aspirator to spray medicine in ITs eye and down ITs throat. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. They swear an oath to return to Derry if It ever comes back and starts killing a. Derry, Maine seems like any other small town in the US except for its dark history. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published IT follows the story of seven preteen children from the fictional town of Derry, Maine who are stalked and terrorized by an evil eldritch entity they only know as "IT." The Losers Club then swear a blood oath to return to Derry should IT ever return in the future. People often say they hate the ending of this book...I did not hate it or love it. When Bill's brother Georgie is killed by It, the mysterious thing behind Derry's darkness, Bill sets out to find it. King is very good at describing how children would think and make us feel their fears. [ * I hated this the first time I read It, and my opinion has never improved. Evil just keeps on coming, it always does. Richie is always cracking jokes and doing impersonations which later prove very powerful weapons against It. At the same time, the worst storm in Maine's history sweeps through Derry, and the downtown area collapses. The 3 boys later befriend fellow misfits Richie Tozier a jokester, Stan Uris a Jewish boy, and Beverly Marsh a lower-middle-class girl. His disappearance galvanizes the Derry police department into investigating Dorsey's death, and his stepfather is eventually charged and convicted of murder. Occult Rituals. Bill Denbrough is now a successful horror writer living in England with his actress wife, Audra. It is a novel that should be read two times, once as a kid and again as an adult, wearing the protagonist's skin as role-playing, and luckily I did. September 15, 1986 The checkout counter loomed above me and the cashier said "You don't want to read this." Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and find happiness. One is read by Chuck Benson and another version is read by Steven Weber. When he makes comments and jokes, he often uses heavy profanity as well as implied or explicit violence. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. His deteriorating sanity becomes apparent during his attacks on Eddie and Beverly: with the former, he pushed Mr. Gedreau to the ground and threatened him into going back inside the Tracker Bros. Store when the man tried to stand up for Eddie after Henry starts attacking Eddie with gravel; he kicked out an old lady's taillight when she tried to stand up for Beverly. © 2020 Valve Corporation. VAT included in all prices where applicable. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. As with many King characters Jack Torrance, Paul Sheldon, Ben Mears, Bobbi Anderson, Thaddeus Beaumont, Mike Noonan, Louis Creed and numerous others, in 1985 Bill is a successful writer. by New English Library. Richie returns to California. It is also noted that he is a more than fair pitcher during the rock fight, where he causes the most damage (partly and somewhat paradoxically because he did not want to be there). Stan, much like Mike, is racially persecuted by Henry. Rather than return to Derry to face the ancient terror, despite being the one to slice the Losers' palms in a blood oath, his character is simply unable to endure all the horror as an adult. Adrian's partner, the other victim in the attack, had also noticed the clown, seeing it viciously bite Mellon under an arm, but the prosecutors convince him not to mention it during the trial. He soon comes to realize that there is a deep racial divide within the army and within Derry (although he does admit that there are a large number of good citizens in Derry as well as bad, and it might actually be the place itself that causes such divides between its people). This defaults to your Review Score Setting. As children, Beverly Marsh develops an intense crush on him during the summer of 58 and when the group returns to Derry in 1985 as grownups they sleep together but do not carry their relationship any further. Romanzo d'avventura, questo It. I got my first copy of IT when I was 10 years old. In late July, Eddie is hospitalized after an attack by Henry Bowers and several of his friends. The following June, on the last day of school, Ben Hanscom, an overweight 11-year-old boy, is harassed by a gang of bullies led by Henry Bowers, who attempts to carve his name into Ben's stomach with a switchblade knife. It is a novel with a first-class style of writing, never boring. Refresh and try again. Stan is the skeptical, bookish Jewish member of the group (Uris does, however, admit that his family takes a relaxed approach to their faith, rather than practicing it devoutly). Edward "Eddie" Kaspbrak: Eddie is a frail-seeming boy suffering from psychosomatic asthma. Someone far more intelligent than I once told me that he didn't bother with a book if it didn't capture his interest by the first 50 pages. The novel describes Vic as having good morals despite helping Henry torment the Losers, often wanting to scare or intimidate the Losers rather than actually cause physical harm. Ben shows them how to build a dam along the creek bed, a project they're later admonished for by a friendly local policeman named Officer Nell, who also tells them never to wander the streets of Derry or come to the Barrens alone. Among Henry's gang, Vic is most likely the smartest and most intelligent member and is the only one who truly realizes Henry's insanity, and becomes increasingly reluctant to follow him. George's death is the first in the fall of 1957 and it is what drives Bill to defeat It. Pennywise offers Georgie a balloon which he cautiously refuses, however, the clown cleverly entices Georgie to reach into the drain to retrieve his boat and then viciously tears off his arm, leaving the poor boy to bleed to death in the gutter. Books at Amazon. Audra is a famous actress. Le paure rinnovate di adulti mai cresciuti fino in fondo, che si trovano di nuovo a sprofondare nell'abisso della disperazione. Peter Gordon: A well-off friend of Henry's that lives on West Broadway, who thinks chasing Mike Hanlon is a game, though Henry's crazed and increasingly violent behavior (such as attempting to outright kill Mike with cherry bombs and M-80s) begins to alienate him. When alone with Henry after lighting farts with him and his gang one July afternoon in 1958, Patrick gives Henry a handjob and offers to give him oral sex, which snaps Henry out of his daze and prompts him to punch Patrick in the mouth. Beverly shoots a slug from Bill's slingshot at the werewolf, injuring IT and causing IT to flee back to the sewers. Romanzo dell'orrore, questo It. Death and disappearances are the norm and every 27 years they peak as more and more children are killed. We don't discriminate here. Richard 'Trashmouth' Tozier: Known as the "Trashmouth," Richie is the Losers most lighthearted member. After their first encounter with It, The Losers eventually all drift apart and go their separate ways in life. Hanno in comune una vita piuttosto infelice. Information Later, The Losers Club discover a message from IT written in Patrick's blood warning them that IT will kill them if they continue trying to fight IT. Originally, King envisioned the IT character as a troll living in the sewer system, drawing on the idea of the troll under the bridge from the "Three Billy Goats Gruff" children's story. Egged on by years of his racist, alcoholic father’s hatred for The Senior Hanlon's success as a local farmer, Henry admits to poisoning Mike's dog and chases the terrified boy into the Barrens. They swear an oath to return to Derry if It ever comes back and starts killing and 27 years later they all return to face down It and try to get rid of It once and for all. Publisher This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Michael 'Mike' Hanlon: Mike is one of the only black children in Derry and is the last to join the Losers. It calls itself the "Eater of Worlds", and manifests itself on Earth as the evil life-force of the entire town of Derry, forming a part of the physical geography and infrastructure of the town as well as the minds and actions of the people (mostly adults) in it. When they open their fortune cookies at the end of dinner, IT strikes, causing horrible hallucinations to plague them. When she makes it to Derry, It uses Tom Rogan to capture her and uses her as bait to lure Bill Denbrough. IT then appears to Tom Rogan and orders him to capture Audra. If you can read this wondrous tale and not be reminded of the best times of your childhood and the best friends ever, then you've got a heart of stone. His father kept an album filled with old photos which were important to Derry's history, including several of Pennywise the Dancing Clown. [ I expected that Beverly would have to face him again, that's the sole reason he even came after Bev in the first place!
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