I haven't read Salem's Lot in I don't even know how long. I should pick that up again.

Which just did not support what the story did before.

It felt like he hadn't figured out what "it" would be, and then got to the end and said, "Fuck. Well, how about this?"

It also made the previous 500 pages feel a bit masturbatory, and/or like he was stalling because he didn't know where the hell to go.

And yet ... Pennywise still freaks me the fuck out.

I remember loving It a LOT when I read it—in junior high, I think—and don't remember having issues with the ending. I've wanted to reread it. It's Seanan's favorite book of all time.

I remember loving It a LOT when I read it—in junior high, I think—and don't remember having issues with the ending.

I think the characterizations were fabulous, especially when they were children, but the ending was a little anticlimactic for me. After all that, it was a big spider ? I just expected something ... more.

I am not up with anticlimactic endings, so I may have not liked it, but I'm pretty sure I loved the rest enough to make up for it. My favorite parts were the Derry Interludes, if I recall.

Cryptonomicon had an anticlimactic ending too, probably, but I still loved it.

Actually, having Pennywise the clown turn out to be a giant fucking spider? Yes, that terrified me. Two of my phobias, joining forces, DO NOT WANT AT ALL, THANKS. But the way they defeated it? Bah.

The Shining, Salem's Lot and The Stand are still my favorite King books, but I do have a soft spot for It. The ending was the weakest part though.

I also think Bag of Bones was the best thing he'd done in ages when it came out, but haven't read much of his stuff since then.

he he ... when I was reading It, I read a scene where someone turns on a faucet and blood comes out. Shortly afterwards I went to take a shower, turned on the water, and it came out red-brown.

rust in the water, and it cleared quickly, but gave me quite a scare (it was a dark and stormy night, if I remember correctly)

I do love The Dead Zone.

I also think Bag of Bones was the best thing he'd done in ages when it came out

Yes, I really thought it was quite good.

But Under The Dome? When I watched The Simpsons movie, I was all "Holy shit, when did this come out? WHO PLAGIARIZED WHO, BITCHES?!"

When I had longer hair, I was unable to wash my face with it hanging down over my shoulders, because of the scene in IT when Beverly was listening to voices in the drainpipe and her hair is hanging over her shoulders, and she thinks about something GRABBING it, and pulling...

ION, I mentioned Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death books the other day, and I've read all 4. I really, really liked them, except for the last one, in which Adelia's spicy brains seem to fall right out of her head, and she becomes a stereotypical stupid heroine. FAIL.

I also read a Diana Norman book (a pseud for Franklin, or rather, vice versa, A Catch of Consequence, and found it boring and the pacing and characterization shallow. Did not love.

I didn't love the sequel of Sweetness quite as much as the original. It has some of the same disappointment that I got from Changeless - too much of what I liked about the original was the novel setting and characters, so a story set in the world post-establishing was harder to completely fall for. I'm worried about Iron Man 2 for similar reasons.