Needful Things - Stephen King Reviews

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 ...

Proclaimed as 'the master of horror', Stephen King produced a real masterpiece in this book. The main reason for this is he created the ultimate bad guy in Leland Gaunt, the proprietor of Needful Things. Without giving too much away, the character takes on a life of it's own, and outstrips even his own previous nasties such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you like Steven King books you need to read Needful Things (pun intended). Needful things is classic king from start to finish. A friend of mine (well, actually a school teacher) said that he didn’t like Steven King because each book followed the same kind of path. This was: 1st 1/3rd of the book= Description of a nice ...

A new shop opens up in town, and of course everyone’s interested. The owner seems polite and nice enough, but how does he have everything everyone wants and why doesn’t he want money for your purchase? You find quickly that this particular shop owner isn’t what he seems, instead of money he gets his unsuspecting ...

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 ...

I purchased this book about 1 month ago, from the country bookshop, in my opinion it's one of Stephen King's best. I alway's say that everytime i read one of his books, but he is a fantastic writer. This novel is about a small sleepy town called Castle Rock in Maine. A new shop has been opened, by a stranger, which ...

This is one those books by King that people either like a lot or not much at all. I love it, putting it only behind IT as my favorite King novel. The story is carefully woven together to culminate in the destruction of one of my favorite settings in any of King's novels, Castle Rock. The book is billed as the final Castle Rock story, but I ...

A great disappointment for SK Needful Things is a new shop in the sleepy town of Castle Rock, Maine. Problem is that the proprietor wants more than just cash for his goods and the price can be very high. The folk of Castle Rock get what they’ve always wanted but have to do the most bizarre things to pay for their purchase. Pointless ...