If you only read one horror book in your life, read this one! Forget about the cheesy "made for tv" miniseries that was made back in the early 90's. That was a travesty and did not do this amazing book the justice that it deserved. I read IT first when I was 16 years-old and then again 25 years later. I remember even though the hardcover was over 1,000 pages, I tore through it in one week during the summer of 1987. My thoughts when I read it all those years ago were that this was a monumental book that would always be one of my favorites as long as I lived. Reading it again after 25 years has only reinforced those thoughts. This is a story of a group of kids who seem to be the only ones who know about and can see an unspeakable evil entity who is killing children in their hometown of Derry Maine. This entity (who's name is revealed as Pennywise to the kids), terrorizes the community for a number of years until the group of kids seemingly banishes him forever (or so they think). There's one problem: terrible things start happening again in the town of Derry Maine as these kids have now become adults and have families of their own. They soon realize that they must regroup, travel back to their old hometown, and fight Pennywise in one last showdown where nothing is certain - especially their own survival. I absolutely loved this book and to this day it remains in my list of top 5 books of all-time. I guarantee that if you read it, you will not want to put it down until the end. Keep a light on though, just a warning!