• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      A brief internet search tells me that IT’s real form (or at least the closest thing to a real form the human mind can comprehend in our plane of existence) is a giant pregnant female spider. Apparently one of the characters in the book says “oh dear Jesus, IT is female,” though the web page I was reading doesn’t give a page number.

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        1 year ago

        The It monster is in the dark Tower? Which book? I think I only read the first three.

        And honestly I can barely remember them even though I read the first three twice. They’re so crazy.

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          1 year ago

          When he finally came back to finish that series he really took it off, way off, the rails. I envy you for only having read the first 3.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, but Book 4 is the best. Wizard and Glass is the pinnacle of the series.

            Been years (prob over a decade) since I’ve read any of them, but I remembered hating Wizard and Glass at first, because it was a prequel and I wanted to hear more about the current journey, but fell in love with it by the end. So fucking good.

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              1 year ago

              Oh man, talk about unpopular take.

              You’re entitled to your opinion of course. But that’s a tough one to defend lol

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            1 year ago

            Oh yeah? Which one did they first visit a metropolitan city?

            Was the gunslinger in a pharmacy?

            Idk I think I lost interest at that point.

            Ahhh look at these strange metal boxes with people inside! - geeeet outta here.

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              1 year ago

              2nd book has the gunslinger (in Eddie’s body) in New York, and yes he had a shootout with the police in a pharmacy. He needed meds for his infected hand.

              I don’t remember strange metal boxes with people inside…

              4th book is really good. At least teenage me liked it at the time. It’s a prequel book about a time in the gunslinger past when he had just become newly knighted, and a love interest.

              After that things get weird. I should try another read through.