Are you willing to pay the ultimate price for your heart's desire? (Needful Things - Stephen King)

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Product:	Needful Things - Stephen King
Date:	27/05/01 (41 review reads)
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Advantages: Terrifying, Suspense, Great bad guy

Disadvantages: Long

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 go very badly wrong...

A mammoth book jam packed with suspense, horror and one of the most evil bad guys ever created by Stephen King this is right up there with It and The Shining. Each page ends in suspense yet it still manages to deliver a terrifying finale.

The film, as with most of King's, seemed rushed and badly made and disapointed me more than any other film adaption of King's novels. Despite a respectable cast, it just didn't capture the setting of Castle Rock.

Don't let these distract from this excellent book, which though long, is worth the effort. For best effects read at night, but whatever you do don't turn out the
nightlight!

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