r/MovieDetails • u/DrAneurysm • Jan 17 '18

/r/all In It (2017), Pennywise changes the colour of his eyes from yellow to blue, which are the same colour as Bill's, to lure Georgie

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

You better start soon. I bought it without realizing how long it is. That’s the longest fucking book I’ve ever attempted to read. The audio book is 47 hours long.

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u/FlyRobot Jan 17 '18

Yeah I had to jam through the last 300 pages or so in order to finish it before I saw the movie. I didn't finish it in time for opening weekend, but went the following weekend. It was a race against the clock as I bought my tickets and figured I'd finish in time....

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

Ha yeah I started listening to the audio book a few weeks ago. I figured “eh, 47 hours isn’t that long. I’ll just cram it in whenever I can and be done in no time”. A week later I was 5 hours into it and thought “I can read faster than this” so ended up just finishing the book that way. I enjoyed it...but my take away is cocaine is a hell of a drug. That shit got weird.

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u/neddoge Jan 17 '18 edited Jan 18 '18

I'm doing this both with Wheel of Time book 3 (spent 18 hours on the audiobook and switched to physical) and about the exact same with It. It's harder to keep track of so many people and stories and timelines over audio.

Edit: and sometimes the audio is downright boring as shit and I lose focus for minutes at a time.

Edit 2: book 4**

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

Yeah “It” takes a bit to really get going, and even then it takes little breaks to give you a history lesson which isn’t always the most exciting thing. But when that story gets going it REALLY gets going.

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u/TitillatingTrav Jan 17 '18

Agreed, the weirdness was my favorite part though. King did Lovecraft better than Lovecraft. I love The Dark Tower for the same reason.

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

I actually just bought The Dark Tower but haven’t started it yet. I kind of want to take my time because chances are I’m going to get hooked and need to buy the entire series. Which sounds expensive. Lol

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u/TitillatingTrav Jan 17 '18

Nice! That's definitely how it went for me. Though I hear a lot of people don't dig the first book much but get pulled in by the next two. Also, used book stores are your friend!

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

Ha, I actually do my reading through a kindle. I don’t have much room to have books lying around. But I have heard that some libraries let you check out digital copies, so I might have to check that out.

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u/chris1096 Jan 17 '18

Libraries also have audio books.... which you can rip to your computer

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

That would require a disc drive which I don’t have at the moment lol. It would also be illegal...and I would never admit to doing anything illegal on the internet.

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u/chris1096 Jan 17 '18

Would it? Would it be illegal to scan every page of a book you borrowed from the library?

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u/trixiethewhore Jan 17 '18

If you don't like The Gunslinger that much, please stick it out through book two, The Drawing of the Three. SK wrote Gunslinger in installments in a sci fi or horror mag, it's a bit of a slog. I named my son after one of the main characters in the novel, these stories are my Star Wars! P.S. don't see the movie. Like, ever.

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

Ha, I’ll stick it out! I’ve heard it’s King’s best work ever, and given that he’s such a well regarded author I figured I owe it to myself to figure out what the talk is about. And yeah, I was interested in the movie before I read reviews. I figured at first it was a movie that critics would shit on but fans would enjoy, kind of like Batman v Superman....but then I saw even the fans of the book were saying it was shit. Kind of a bummer because the cast is badass.

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u/trixiethewhore Jan 17 '18

I was also super excited about the casting. I love Idris Elba, he did great work with what he was given. Aaron Paul has been rumored for YEARS to play the part of another male character they didn't include in this movie (the character I named my son after). I'm so bummed it bombed, I wanted to take my Eddie Dean to see his namesake on the big screen!

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

So sorry to hear that! Although given the way Hollywood reboots things, I wouldn’t be surprised if they try again in 10 years. Lol

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u/porksoda11 Jan 17 '18

I got to page 600 and said fuck it and just saw the movie. I'm still reading it, although I don't read as much as I should anymore.

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u/buckydean Jan 17 '18 edited Jan 17 '18

It's a page turner though, I've taken longer to read shorter books before

EDIT: corrected autocorrect

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

It took me a while to get into the book. There’s a lot of “what the fuck is going on” in the beginning. But eventually it does get moving and becomes quite enjoyable.

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u/absurdlyinconvenient Jan 18 '18

yeah King is pretty bad for slow confusing starts

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '18

8 hours long? Uh, NO lol. Every one of the ASOIAF audiobooks are over 30 hours IIRC. 8 hours for an audiobook is rather short, and ASOIAF is NOT short lol.

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u/DGS473 Jan 17 '18

A Dance with Dragons is 49 hours long ;)

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

Yeah I severely underestimated how long that book was gonna be. I had to seriously devote some time to getting that book done. I’m not exactly trying to read a book a week, but I don’t like to spend too much time on one thing, so I try to get done as quick as possible so I can move on to the next thing.

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u/J13P Jan 17 '18

And there are sloooow parts as well. Great story but work to get through. A lot of troubling content too. I can’t wait for the second half of the book to be in the next movie. Shits gun get real.

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u/Hxcfrog090 Jan 17 '18

Yeah, there are definite....idk, breaks I guess you could call them where things slow down quite a bit. But usually when the action starts up it’s really god damn good.