I went into IT with an open mind and was prepared for that scene. Kept thinking that it probably made a lot of sense since many King fans had said it had a very beautiful reason behind it.
Then I get to it. And it’s just stupid. Genuinely stupid.
The kids are scared of forgetting each other, because that is the power of IT. It makes people forget as they grow up.
So they want to do something meaningful to remember each other. And Bev is like: y’all can fuck me.
And I am over here like: how are the boys supposed to remember each other if they only fuck you? If that scene was supposed to make a lick of sense, the kids would have an orgy with each other and not just the boys lining up to have sex with one girl.
I can go along with weird and uncomfortable ideas in books if they make sense. In this case, it made no sense. But people either seem to defend it because they just go along with the premise or they defend King because he was high or some shit.
I’m not defending bad storytelling. IT has a lot of cool concepts in it and no one can write about small communities like King can, but I’m not gonna pretend like the kids having sex is some clever narrative device. It’s very, very stupid.
Tbh if my first time was a train of my bros all with the same chick, i’d probably remember them for a very long time even without a proper orgy. Though i’d probably remember them all for helping to defeat an eldritch sewer fiend anyways.
Still sounds like a stupid thing to put in a horror story about teenagers though…
That the thing, though. IT steals your memories, so the intimacy was supposed to bond the kids together forever so that they wouldn’t forget one another (they do anyway), but to me it makes no sense, when Bev is the only one who’s intimate with everybody and the boys aren’t intimate with one another.
Then again, I think there could have been other way to get the same point across. They do a blood oath as well and I think that could have served a similar purpose if the kids had all mixed blood like the vikings and become bloodbrothers/sister and symbolically carried a part of each other in their veins forever.
It’s not a terrible book. The stories and descriptions about Derry through time are really well written and fun world building in my opinion.
I just think the book was a bit too long and also had a couple of elements that were too silly.
I haven’t read every king book ever, but currently, I think Misery is his best book. While he likes to have big casts and writing about communities, he’s absolutely at his best when he is stuck with two interesting characters who play off one another in a battle of wills.
But yeah, IT is far from a bad book, but in my opinion a bit overrated in popculture.
I went into IT with an open mind and was prepared for that scene. Kept thinking that it probably made a lot of sense since many King fans had said it had a very beautiful reason behind it.
Then I get to it. And it’s just stupid. Genuinely stupid.
The kids are scared of forgetting each other, because that is the power of IT. It makes people forget as they grow up.
So they want to do something meaningful to remember each other. And Bev is like: y’all can fuck me.
And I am over here like: how are the boys supposed to remember each other if they only fuck you? If that scene was supposed to make a lick of sense, the kids would have an orgy with each other and not just the boys lining up to have sex with one girl.
I can go along with weird and uncomfortable ideas in books if they make sense. In this case, it made no sense. But people either seem to defend it because they just go along with the premise or they defend King because he was high or some shit.
I’m not defending bad storytelling. IT has a lot of cool concepts in it and no one can write about small communities like King can, but I’m not gonna pretend like the kids having sex is some clever narrative device. It’s very, very stupid.
I also think the Turtle is goofy af.
Tbh if my first time was a train of my bros all with the same chick, i’d probably remember them for a very long time even without a proper orgy. Though i’d probably remember them all for helping to defeat an eldritch sewer fiend anyways.
Still sounds like a stupid thing to put in a horror story about teenagers though…
That the thing, though. IT steals your memories, so the intimacy was supposed to bond the kids together forever so that they wouldn’t forget one another (they do anyway), but to me it makes no sense, when Bev is the only one who’s intimate with everybody and the boys aren’t intimate with one another.
Then again, I think there could have been other way to get the same point across. They do a blood oath as well and I think that could have served a similar purpose if the kids had all mixed blood like the vikings and become bloodbrothers/sister and symbolically carried a part of each other in their veins forever.
What makes it bad is they’re not teenagers. They’re 11 year olds.
“How coyld we remeber each other forever?”
“Oh I know, lets all do a childhood trauma!”
😑 i thought they were like 14 or something…it makes even less sense now
Oddly enough, I put that BS down far before the halfway point back in the day, and never picked it up again.
Thankfully, the only knowledge I have of this King-style WTF Deluxe?
Vicariously. Phew. 😬
It’s not a terrible book. The stories and descriptions about Derry through time are really well written and fun world building in my opinion.
I just think the book was a bit too long and also had a couple of elements that were too silly.
I haven’t read every king book ever, but currently, I think Misery is his best book. While he likes to have big casts and writing about communities, he’s absolutely at his best when he is stuck with two interesting characters who play off one another in a battle of wills.
But yeah, IT is far from a bad book, but in my opinion a bit overrated in popculture.