My last few days living at the homeless hostel, I’m so looking forward to finally moving into my own home, it’s been a long journey. I look back to the time I was laying on the floor crying, unable to breathe, wishing the pain would end. I’m so pleased that my friend found me after my overdose, back then I never…

Pasta is supposed to be said with a flat a.

Maybe has and they’re ALL MAGICIANS.

I posted about Mr. Mercedes about 20 minutes ago, and his insistence on having that kid “jokingly” talking like he’s channeling the worst stereotypes of an old-timey movie.

YES. OH MY GOD.

I have read the book (although it has been a while) and I remember this scene being really uncomfortable and bad. I’m saying your explanation of doesn’t make any sense. Her having sex with the boys individually doesn’t make any sense to bond the entire group of them together. You could claim it would bond her with…

He lives in Maine, so...probably not?

As recently as ‘Mr Mercedes’ (2014) and his most recent short story anthology (2015) I still had to wonder: has Stephen King ever actually spoken to a black person, ever?

Yeah, it’s a super weird tick to have ‘magic black people’ as like a recurring theme for a writer to have.

I WILL NOT HAVE YOU BESMIRCHING SPACE TURTLES

If the point was to unify her into the existing group of already unified boys, you might have an argument. But somehow her having sex with each individual boy unifies the whole group? It somehow bring the boys together as well as her and the boys? How exactly is that supposed to work? “We all had sex with her, so we…

I say this as someone who owns nearly every novel King has written and, when considering the entire gigantic body of his work, he’s actually kind of my favourite author.

I meant “acceptable” as in “acceptable as a fictional narrative that realistically helps suspend reality” you numpty.

Haha! You’re funny. He’s describing what literally happens in the book. They have sex (so their relationship is no longer Platonic), and the girl is described as for the most part not enjoying it, and doing it to bring the group back together. So this is a perfect example of the utilitarian take on female sexuality.

“They all had a power that made them special and hers was screwing her friends.”

I don’t think the boys kissing or having sex with each other would have justified the rest of the scene, which still made no sense. But there was a weird asymmetry to it that bugged me in addition to the rest, as you say.

It’s not terrible for writers to write about terrible things. But it is terrible when it comes out of nowhere and doesn’t seem at all believable. Readers got to know Bev in hundreds of pages before this jarring scene. This did not ring true to Bev at all. Extremely disappointing for many, many reasons.

I read IT was when I was twelve as well, and the exact opposite occurred for me. I thought it was odd it made me uncomfortable. They all had a power that made them special and hers was screwing her friends. To this day I still love the book, but that whole scene was jarring and unnecessary.

I am a HUGE Stephen King fan, and I agree with all of this.

This is just how I feel about all of Stephen King’s work, and it’s a shame because he does seem like he is a decent man. He stood up for gun control, etc etc.