One of his worst (Needful Things - Stephen King)

Member Name: reyaazm

Product:	Needful Things - Stephen King
Date:	22/08/00 (25 review reads)
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Disadvantages: boring, boring, boring

The book is subtitled The last Castle Rock story. . . . It is one of the more ingenious of King's visions of the destruction of Maine small-town life. But like other of King's novels in the genre, the plodding massiveness eventually wearies.

This is another 'two tons of crap in a five-ton crate' If it is the last novel of this kind that King intends to write, literature will sustain no great loss.

He has shown in recent years that he can write subtler fiction than NeedfulThings. The Dark Half (in which a bestselling author is haunted by his murderous pseudonymous self) and Misery (in which a bestselling author is kept captive by his 'number one fan') can be read as grimly ironic parables on King's own success.

They suggest that once he rids himself of old formulas--however remunerative--he may yet write a book which will make his enemies, the critics, think twice about him.

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