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Book Review By Gary Pullman
It by Stephen King

"It" is your worst fear--literally. An ancient evil that returns periodically to feed upon the populace of a small town in Maine, the monstrous entity known as "It" can, and will, be everyone's worst nightmare come true. It attacked Derry years ago, but a group of kids defeated the monster--or so they'd believed. Now, they are adults, and "It" has come back. In fighting the monster, the adults recall what it was like to have fought it years before. The last time, they'd been lucky in one respect, at least. None of them had been killed. This time, one of them will die. A scary and suspenseful horror story that creates the world as it was in the late 1950's and early 1960's and as it was in the 1990's.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story - Dry-cynical
Time/era of story:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Horror Story? Yes
Horror plotlets - the monster chased me!
descript. of violence and chases - 30 %
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 %
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10 %
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20 %

Main Character
Gender - Male
Age: - a kid
Ethnicity/Race

Main Adversary
Has special powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
Eccentric: Yes
Motive of antagonist - power
Monster of some sort? Yes
Kind of monster: - general monster

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Misc setting - sewers/subways

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - very gorey references to deaths/dead bodies and torture
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references
Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - fright - eaten - flamed - drowned - perforation--bullets - perforation--swords/knives - blunt clubbing (like seals) - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - significantly more descript than dialog
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