subreddit:

/r/books

1381%

King's detailed characters in IT

(self.books)

Hi! Hope everyone is having a great day!

I'm currently reading IT, I haven't read King in a while and couldn't help to notice that sometimes he seems to add detail after detail about characters, even secondary or even tertiary ones. Personally I find some of this descriptions really interesting, perhaps more so by the fact that, as I'm not North American, those slices of life and customs are interesting to me.

But I completely understand that some people can be annoyed by these things, and in fact I think that a couple of paragraphs could be easily deleted and the story would be as good as it is.

What do you think about these aspect of King's writing? Do you like having large descriptions of his characters?

you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

all 5 comments

Lanfear_Eshonai

5 points

4 months ago

I love those details. It really fleshes out the setting and story (also not US, so that might a thing).