Review - It
Nov. 3rd, 2008 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wilderthanThis book was a bit like a rollercoaster I've been on. It started off slowly, slowly, until you think, "oh god, maybe I'm wasting my time", and then it gets to the top and starts to roll down and twist about and sometimes seems to throw you upside down, and you're going to be sick, and if you're a braver person than me, when it rolls to a halt, you decide you're going to do it all again right away.
It is a seriously dense book. There's layers and layers of setting the scene, building the characters, placing you firmly in Derry yourself. There's so much background that, like the characters of the book, I think I'm starting to forget a lot of it now that I've reached the end.
I loved it. It certainly has its flaws -- it gets too dense, in parts, goes too slow, and sometimes it's just too obvious. We get told over and over again that Bill Denborough is the big leaderman, that Ben's the one who can build things, etc, etc. But I enjoy really solidly built characters and really deep world-building, so this was really my thing. I thought parts of it, like the Turtle, were really pushing it, but it was worked in, in little bits, throughout the story, so I could go with that.
At first I thought it wasn't going to freak me out that much, but then it did. Ohboy, it freaked me out. And now I have to walk to dinner in the pitch-dark...!
It is a seriously dense book. There's layers and layers of setting the scene, building the characters, placing you firmly in Derry yourself. There's so much background that, like the characters of the book, I think I'm starting to forget a lot of it now that I've reached the end.
I loved it. It certainly has its flaws -- it gets too dense, in parts, goes too slow, and sometimes it's just too obvious. We get told over and over again that Bill Denborough is the big leaderman, that Ben's the one who can build things, etc, etc. But I enjoy really solidly built characters and really deep world-building, so this was really my thing. I thought parts of it, like the Turtle, were really pushing it, but it was worked in, in little bits, throughout the story, so I could go with that.
At first I thought it wasn't going to freak me out that much, but then it did. Ohboy, it freaked me out. And now I have to walk to dinner in the pitch-dark...!
