Published in 1986
Worldwide bestseller about why your emotional intelligence is more important than your IQ
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In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Timeline split into two films instead of alternating chapters

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight against an ancient shape-shifting alien who poses as a child-killing clown, while also dealing with bullies and abusive parents. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the creature once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Most-voted differences from all screen adaptations
The book alternates between 1958 and 1985. The films split into pure childhood (2017) and adulthood (Chapter Two).
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