#62 Read It, decide it could probably be about half as long.

I love Stephen King, and I get he's trying to set up an atmosphere of epic evil in the town of Derry, but a whole lot of extra story fits in 1138 pages. Did I really need to know how Ben Hanscom lost all of his extra weight? Or detailed stories (the Derry "Interludes") for every single strange event to happen in Derry over one hundred years?

Maybe I did. Fantasy is better when it's epic, I suppose, but reading It was like reading A Feast for Crows with no Tyrion and no Daenerys - I really had to commit myself to stay interested.

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