Thoughts 
IT by Stephen King, Penguin Audiobooks 2010 (orig 1986), ~45 hours
I also followed along with a 4th printing hardback copy (1138 pgs) printed in September 1986 which I found at Goodwill for $1: 
Read for the #ITalong 
readalong and the Stephen King Project 
I loved it! I specifically enjoyed the listening to Steven Weber 
as narrator. He did an excellent job.
AND I loved the community aspect of tweeting and posting of pics 
and the mailing of trinkets, etc. 
Much fun. 
(pretty sparkly turtle. Long live the turtle. The turtle is dead.)
I didn’t really mind the Interludes; however, the Bev part at the end (as Christina called it, the ‘group-on’?!) did appall me, Stan died too early to make me care much about him, the sections involving Bev’s husband scared me the most, I was baffled and ultimately let down by the turtle, and I was in love with little kid Ben.
I rated the experience 
slices of pie. 
I heartily recommend this audio. I will be ready for #Shine-along. January?
I also count this for one of my RIP IV reads.
This is a RIP-worthy shot of a bird on the bow of the boat late late one night…
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Care's Books and Pie 
I’m in on The Shining, will maybe do audio! I’m glad you posted a couple of clown nose pics for the farewell post!
IT was fun!
Yes! January or February for The Shining. I already have my copy, but Natalie’s talked me into listening to it.
I like having the print copy along with an audio just to keep track of page numbers and quotes.
Hmm, might have to do the Shine-along, if I am caught up with my ARCs by then. I found a pile of them that I’d misplaced for a month, this week. Horrors.
Horrors!! Hope they are good reads. 🙂
I love this post Care!! The Bev thing was really too strange. And agree that the scene with Bev and her husband at the beginning was the most intense scene of the entire book. Especially listening. I was in rush hour traffic at that part and remember feeling SO tense. I’ve never reacted to an audiobook that way–was incredible.
Definitely on for the Shine-On. You gals are just too much fun. 😉 xo
Yes, we ARE fun. 😀
THE MOST FUN!! THE FUNNEST!!! or just funniest?
Love the way the pictures tell the story. That turtle pin is really cool, as is that picture of the bird. I agree that Stan was a character that didn’t bother me, but could easily have been left out. I don’t see the point of having him except to maybe show how freaked out they all were to face IT again? Don’t know.
I’m totally in for the shine along. Such a fun group. I’ll try to keep up next time so I can enjoy the twitter conversation too.
Yep, poor Stan. I still want to call him a coward, though.
I’m with you on loving this one. I was tempted to give it a 5 and would have it had trimmed a couple of hundred pages. The group-on was just icky.
It’s been fun visiting Derry with you.
I gave it a 5 anyway because of the community experience. Yea, twitter can make things fun (and crazy).
You had so much fun with this. So did I! Who’d have thought reading horror with a group could be this much fun?
Might be the ONLY way I will read horror.
Glad you enjoyed it-I was not brave enough to sign up for this one. I can get over thinking that there is a scary plague hiding under my bed, not sure if I could do the same for the clown!
What a way cool bird picture!
I think the bird was a gannett? I have a better photo that shows it’s true coloring and shape but this blurry one looked so wonderfully creepy.
I really didn’t find IT as scary as I thought I would. It really was a treat.
I LOVE little kid Ben and adult Ben is not so bad either. I am late in posting my ITalong, but I got sidetracked with vacations, work, etc. I am hoping to participate more actively if there is a Shine-along, it looks like it was a lot of fun 🙂
Yes! I look forward to #ShineON-ing with you. Looks like it will be another fun one.
So I just finished It and I just had to go back and read your post on the book. I definitely should had read it along with you all, it scared me silly!
But did you ENJOY being scared silly?