Did not finish. 
 King has this grotesque way of writing about black people. And I know on some level he may just be doing that thing he does, like when he took something as boring and profound as growing up and twisted it into a horrifying, homicidal clown. And if I thought he might ever follow through and follow up in that way, I'd be interested in continuing so that I could see what the Pennywise of racism is. 
 But he never actually goes there, never really makes a monster out of it we can fear and hate. So instead there's just this uncomfortable characterization and racism, and it's just there. It's just a sick, sad part of King's universe. And unlike in the Dark Tower, when I had already invested books' worth of time into the story before it got real bad, here I am only 20% into the first book of a trilogy, and I'm cutting my losses because, man, I just do not have an appetite for it.