Stephen King's IT
So a month back I finally get round to reading Stephen King's IT. God damn did this book take me an age to read. Now I read and enjoyed King as a younger teenager, I remember reading the Shining, Salem's lot and few others which escape me now.
However going back to king after devouring Palahniuk and Palahniuk-esque authors (which have blown me away these last few years) has proven an arduous task.
Anyways so I going through the last painful chapters of a book which I thought was an excellent story but had me frustrated with it's fastidiously overly drawn out 3rd person narrative.
Not to my question to those who have read and understood the book: why the hell did Beverley let the other's gang fuck her after they had 'stopped' IT. I mean the thing was defeated was it or not? (or stunned whatever). What possible reason was there for this event?. I mean they had already sworn a pact and declared a ‘love’ for one another. So what gives?
[QUOTE=wickerkat;1107796]There are a lot of theories on it. What I always thought was it was a way to bond them to each other forever, deeper then everything they'd gone through. Something they could not deny as supernatural or made up. And to show her love to them all. I'm sure others will speak up. It's been awhile since I read it.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. Yeah I guess I saw it as a solidification of the bond between them all. I thought It was unusual that sex was used as the agent though . I guess that the child-like themes used throughout beforehand were being transcended and the this scene was the point of 'innocence lost' and the start of adulthood, sex of course being a largely adult pastime. I dunno though...
I remember things blowing up and kids having sex.The book shit me up,pennywise waving to mike the old hag,top book kings best.
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[QUOTE=3sheetstothewind;1107809]Thanks. Yeah I guess I saw it as a solidification of the bond between them all. I thought It was unusual that sex was used as the agent though . I guess that the child-like themes used throughout beforehand were being transcended and the this scene was the point of 'innocence lost' and the start of adulthood, sex of course being a largely adult pastime. I dunno though...[/QUOTE]
exactly
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Its so long since I read IT that its all new to me. I remember the bit in the smoke house had me losing sleep.
There are a lot of theories on it. What I always thought was it was a way to bond them to each other forever, deeper then everything they'd gone through. Something they could not deny as supernatural or made up. And to show her love to them all. I'm sure others will speak up. It's been awhile since I read it.
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