A brief internet search tells me that IT's real form (or at least the closest thing to a real form the human mind can comprehend in our plane of existence) is a giant pregnant female spider. Apparently one of the characters in the book says "oh dear Jesus, IT is female," though the web page I was reading doesn't give a page number.
2nd book has the gunslinger (in Eddie's body) in New York, and yes he had a shootout with the police in a pharmacy. He needed meds for his infected hand.
I don't remember strange metal boxes with people inside...
4th book is really good. At least teenage me liked it at the time. It's a prequel book about a time in the gunslinger past when he had just become newly knighted, and a love interest.
After that things get weird. I should try another read through.
It can be pretty much read as an independent book too, so don't feel like you need to read the other books first. There's just a bit of tie in from the other books at the beginning and the end.
Oh that actually interests me a lot, thank you. I just started Babel by rf kuang, But I think I will try the fourth book, I'd like to see the gunslinger again. Yeah I was worried. I thought I'd have to go through the whole series again, but a relative stand alone entry sounds doable
Yeah, but Book 4 is the best. Wizard and Glass is the pinnacle of the series.
Been years (prob over a decade) since I've read any of them, but I remembered hating Wizard and Glass at first, because it was a prequel and I wanted to hear more about the current journey, but fell in love with it by the end. So fucking good.
I'm mainlining Brandon Sanderson these days. I haven't read too much of King's stuff, although the extended version of The Stand is still in my top favorites and gets a reread regularly
Fun fact: James S.A. Corey isn't a person and is the pen name that Ty Franck and David Abraham use when they're writing together.
The Expanse show was fantastic and the books are somehow better (there's also like 40 more years worth of story [although the books did a multi decade time jump between books to get there])!