:INFO The Novel That Is Not About What You Think It Is About I came to It expecting a horror novel about a supernatural clown. What I found was a novel about seven children in a small Maine town who face something they cannot name or explain, and who grow up and have to go back. The horror is real and often genuinely frightening. But the central subject of the book is memory: how what happened to you in childhood shapes everything that comes after, and what it costs to return to the place where it happened. :COUNTER.half 1138 Pages | :GOAL.half [target:20, current:7] Stephen King novels finished :QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Stephen King] They float, and when you're down here with me, you'll float too. :JOURNEY Reading It 5 Emotional heart 4 More procedural 5 Best King monster 3 Most divisive :GOAL [target:10, current:4] Stephen King novels finished :POLL Do you think It is Stephen King's best novel? Yes by a significant margin One of his best but not the best No, I think another of his novels is stronger I have not read It yet