Needful Things - Stephen King

Well, another day older and another great Stephen King book finished - I've just re-read this great book and I thought the time was right to get a bit of a Dooyoo op out about it. So here goes, from the top: A 1, a 2, a 1-2-3-4: Not the shortest of books this, just 10 pages short of the 800 mark but it goes at one heck of a pace throughout. Plot: ----- The obvious place to begin. The fictional town of Castle Rock in Maine, the setting for a lot of King's books si the setting for Needful Things. A sleepy town, left pretty much to its own devices throughout the autumn (fall if you like) and winter months, is about to fall ...

This book is one of the most perfect examples of the pure art of story telling imaginable. Not just content with developing a handful of characters, King presents a weird and wonderful array of actors in this novel. Sheriff Pangborn, Polly, Nettie, Wilma, Keeton, Hugh Priest, Ace Merrill, Brian Rusk, Myra Evans, and of course, the villain - Leland Gaunt. The story line centres around Gaunt's new store on Main Street, Castle Rock - a shop called 'Needful Things'. By seemingly coincidence, the shop always stocks the one true desire of each and every customer who enters under the green awning. And it is always affordable - in many instances, the price is just ...

Castle Rock has a new shop opening today, one that can provide your deepest wish... if you can afford it. Mr Gaunt opens his shop Needful Things in the small town of Castle Rocks, Maine. One by one, the inhabitants of the town discover something they've always wished. Brian Rusk is the first visitor to the shop and finds the very baseball card he wants. The perfect vase, a jacket from the past, even a celebrity photo. They're all here in this shop of dreams. But for Brian, and the other folk of Castle Rock, it soon turns into the shop of nightmares, as they realise there is a much greater price to pay. The town is thrown into mayhem as things ...