ES

Hardcover, 860 pages

German language

Published Dec. 31, 1985 by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag.

4 stars (3 reviews)

Auf blauen Kacheln über der Badewanne stand mit riesigen zittrigen Buchstaben ein einziges Wort, geschrieben mit Stanleys eigenem Blut: ES

Patty Uris fand endlich ihre Stimme wieder, und während sie in die toten Augen ihres Mannes starrte, begann sie zu schreien.

Mike Hanlon und seine Freunde halten ihren Schwur, den sie vor fünfundzwanzig Jahren getan haben: Sie kommen wieder zusammen - um ES zu töten ...

75 editions

Read It Again

5 stars

This is the third or fourth time I’ve read this novel over the years, so clearly I like it. I read this very slowly over the course of a year, and I think the pace of my reading got me bogged down in several sections, but I still enjoyed It.

This and The Stand are quintessential King novels, must reads for horror fans.

Review of 'It' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

An okay book, which definitely shows King's leanings on politics & society -- which is funny when you consider some of the casual sexism throughout the plot. Most importantly, did we really need a prepubescent sewer orgy scene?

Subjects

  • coming of age
  • thrillers
  • suspense
  • horror
  • Schwinn bicycles
  • catatonia
  • homosexuality
  • blood oaths
  • Omniscience
  • mummies
  • lepers
  • ghosts
  • we
  • clownrewolves
  • nonlinear narrative
  • third-person
  • Open Library Staff Picks
  • Fiction
  • Good and evil
  • horror stories
  • horror tales
  • Horror fiction
  • Reading Level-Grade 9
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  • Reading Level-Grade 10
  • Reading Level-Grade 12
  • Fiction, horror