i remember reading the book and watching the movie in 6th grade and was just absolutely mesmerized.
rewatched it recently and its just as good.
with all the gardening ive been doing in the texas heat i feel for these kids. i also just love peaches.
Jul 1, 2025
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Don't laugh at me, I read the book and watched the movie Holes.
Oct 17, 2024
“Oh, that book.” Yes.
I feel like It is thought of more often as a concept of a book/story or dismissed with a “Yeah, yeah” rather than considered an actual thing you can sit down and read. Not that it is generally despised (other than *that* scene, and yes, I completely agree), but I feel as if so few people care enough to try reading it. And with its massively popular adaptation into the 2017/2019 films, the way It as a story is viewed by the public has completely changed, and today’s tweens probably don’t even know who the director of the films is, let alone Stephen King.
Last summer, I read this book. I started it at the beach at home, but on that fateful day, the waves crashed onto my family’s belongings, taking with them a lunchbox of fruits and one flip-flop of mine (RIP). The next day, we left for a five-day trip, so I was stuck with a very old, very waterlogged, engorged, warped copy of the book. On the very long car rides over the next days, I knocked out over half of It, and spent scorching days by the pool doing the same. On the way home, I began to wrap it up.
When I got back, a hardcover was waiting in the mail for me. And with the last moments of my carefree summer days, I sat in the sunset with my brand new copy of an old story, living vicariously through 7 kids experiencing their last summer together. The red light of the fading yet radiant sunset shone onto my face, and the darkness settled in as I turned the last page.
I have never felt so many things at once. With me, I carried a palpable yet arguably unfounded sense of nostalgia endlessly afterward, and I felt as if I had lived through multiple childhoods and adulthoods in just one summer. I felt devastated and content, hopeless and happy. There is no one emotion I could tie to experiencing 1153 pages of It. It’s just It. It amazes me that on my shelf is an entire world, embossed with the proud “FROM THE LIBRARY OF,” expectant, waiting to be reopened, re-experienced, relived.
This summer will forever be engrained in my memory, and although I say this as a young person, the summer I spent in Sequoia Tree Park amidst gargantuan trees and rolling mountainscapes is the summer I grew up with seven Losers, just trying to get by and go forth with their lives.
Jan 28, 2025
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this is my all time favorite book. i read it in middle school and i have never stopped thinking about it. i absolutely love the movie too, but the book is wayyy better
Jun 11, 2025
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being a gay boy in texas meant that life was never going to be simple. having an older sister has made life 100x better.
shoutout to all the older sisters out there. yall are true soldiers and are truly the heavy lifters in the family. also shoutout to my sister for allowing me to take her car to drive our family to new mexico.
May 18, 2025
call me old fashioned but ill refer to them formally regardless of their age. maybe because i grew up in the south working at chick fil a for a couple months.
hell yeah im calling a 12 year old boy as sir. hes a dapper little fellow.
May 24, 2025
Originally by Betty Hutton. I love the story of why Bjork covered this song and included it in her second album: Her and her band discovered Betty and this song in a truck shop, and they decided that this would be their pre-game song before every show.
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