>powerful entity as old as the universe >can morph into

He wasn't trying all that much, he was mostly just clowning around.

>>9970144
If you read the book you'd know It's power is tied to their fear.

>>9970161
Kek

>After the battle, the Losers get lost in the sewers until Beverly has sex with all the boys to bring unity back to the group.

explain THIS

The power of friendship.

>>9970407
I'm still not sure what King was thinking with that scene.

>>9970144
How hard it is to read this book? I'm a non-native english speaker, I learned this language all by myself, I would say that I have an "intermediate" level, althought that's not really true. So I'm curious, would I be able to read it without too many problems? Perhaps I will read it in 6 months, meanwhile I will keep increasing my vocabulary.

Who else fucking loved the sewer gang-bang scene? I can't be the only one.

>>9970605
can you explain to someone who hasn't read the book why it even happened

aren't the characters children

>>9970407
They should have left this in the movie

>>9970464
King's writing is accessible but it is a doorstopper of a book so the endurance of reading it will be more of a problem for you than the words themselves.

>>9970443
>>9970633
To make sure they remember IT, amnesia setting in on them as they leave the sewers, Bev decides that having sex will be a large enough moment for the loser club for them to at least subconsciously remember IT. Much of Bev's characterisation is her burgeoning sexuality, her father threatens to 'inspect' her after seeing her hanging around boys (it is implied he is waiting for her period to start to then sleep with her). I've also seen the argument that sex separates children from adults and so that is why the gangbang happened. Bev later recalls IT by having sex as an adult with a member of the loser club.

All that being said, it is contrived as hell and someone should have reined King in when reading Bev describe the size and feelings of the loser club's dicks.

To paraphrase King, "If I can't scare, I shock and if I can't shock, I gross out."

>>9970667
*Also they immediately cut their hands with a coke bottle to remember IT right after leaving the sewers which invalidates the gangbang's purpose completely.

>>9970673
how did this get through the editing process

>>9970633

When I read it I thought it was because Bevs dad was a paedophile and she thought that sex was the only way to truly bond with men, which is a common complex sexual abuse survivors have

In retrospect it could have just been Stephen King trying to shock people as much as possible, the ending of the book ruined what could have been a relatively decent book.

>>9970689

because it's stephen king

my problem with it isn't that it happened but more than it didnt seem to have a purpose beyond freaking people out.

King put so much development into the book all for it to eventually come to a few pages of disjointed bullshit, it comes across like he got bored of writing it and didn't know how to finish it so took the ''lole so random!!'' route

>>9970633
Because King was coked up when he wrote it an Bev is this pretty red-haired girl.

>>9970756
It was described along the lines of the kids needed to share their love in order to find their way out of the sewers. They needed to bond. James Bond.

>>9970761
Sex doesn't equal to love though.

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>>9970761
Why I don't believe I've ever read this novel before.

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>>9971462
Oh but James!

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>>9970761
Young virgins exploring their sexual desires? Interesting.

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>>9971478
JAMES!

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>>9971478

stephen king is a talentless hack, there's nothing to explain

>>9970144
>he actually read the book

>>9971909
But I didn't. I ain't going to waste my fucking time reading 1000+ page trash about an epin scary clown.

I just read Rage and I'm reading the Long Walk.

Does EVERY King book feature disgustingly inappropriate sexuality involving minors? Is this freak a pedophile?

>>9972704
No just the ones where the mc is a minor. Also read The Running Man next.

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>>9970144
>can't kill a bunch of children and gets almost killed by them
He does kill some other kids in the town tho.

I liked the Mike Hanlon interludes much more than the main plot.

>>9970771
It should. You make love to a girl you ought to be in love with her.

>>9973494

Town lore is best part of book, yes.

>>9972704
Minors have (pre-)sexualities. King is good at writing from the point of view of children. It would be weird if he wrote a whole bunch about children and didn't include something about sexuality. Add to that the fact that he is a horror writer and delving into the depths of psychologically disturbing subject matter is part of what horror writers do. Should he avoid writing about children getting horribly killed, too, just cause it's disturbing?

>>9973642
>Should he avoid writing about children getting horribly killed, too, just cause it's disturbing?
Yes.

>>9972704
He might be a hebephile like every other straight man on Earth, but not a pedophile.

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>>9971891
He's a hack! A waste of ink and paper!

>>9973704
You should probably avoid horror entirely.