24/06/2024
This cover of It has got to be my least favorite King cover. With that said, it is wild how much perception and weight changes as we get older. To be reading this a second time, over twenty years later.
Just finished the third part of the book, through the introductions of each member of the Loser’s Club. To know so little at this point, but to know all you need to, to know you’re hooked. For all 1,100 pages.
The section introducing Ben Hanscom might be one of my favorite chapters in any book. But the chapter “Beverly Rogan Takes a Whoopin’” is a masterclass in its own right. *small trigger warning alert for DA*. To introduce this character from the perspective of her abusive husband Tom, is harrowing. To be in his mind, with his justifications and his reactions to her fear and suffering is jarring. Its segments like this that were lost on a young teen version of myself. Devoid of real world problems, lacking the knowledge of life and humanity that you only gain with time. King has a way of humanizing the monsters, and making monsters of humans that is second to none.
That cover though… yeesh
