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Summary: Not King's Best
Review: "Something wicked this way comes..." At least, that's the book that King is emulating with this unoriginal novel. A shopkeeper has come to town, willing to sell you anything... for a price. And, of course, the price is high. Wouldn't be interesting if the price was $4.50, now, would it? This book crashes to a decidedly odd end that seems to come from nowhere. It's otherworldly, with a lot of strange stuff going on. It almost seems as if King wasn't sure how to end it, so he just made a lot of supernatural stuff up to cover any and all bases. I expect that from Koontz, but not King. There is some interesting stuff going on in the middle of the book, and it is for that reason that I am giving the book an above average rating, but it is little more than above average. Perhaps this would be a good book if it was your first King experience, but as a constant reader who had read everything of his and immediately picked this up in hardcover upon its release, it bugged me so much so that I didn't read anything else by him again until The Green Mile hit the shelves.
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Summary: one of king's very BEST!
Review: 'needful things' has the typical long-drawn out parts of almost any sk book, but fortunately there aren't too many.. it's a frightening, compelling, and almost too-realistic story. it's the kind of book that's fun to read anytime!
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Summary: A lot of fun
Review: Needful Things is a very good book. King is the type of storyteller that knows how to grip your attention and keep you hooked until the end. If you like terror, suspense and don't mind some blood and gore, this is the book for you. I am giving it 5 stars, but I still think that King's best fiction was written in the seventies and eighties. If you want to read King at his best, try "The Shining", "The Dead Zone" "The Dark Half" and "Tommyknockers".
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Summary: Excellant
Review: The first thing I must say is a 9 is very good. One thing reviewers don't realize is a 1 is terrible, a 5 is average, and a 10 is perfect. That makes a 9 a very high rating. Now, for my review. This book shows exactly what I see in Stephen King. I don't think I have ever read a book with so much imagination from any author. I stayed up all night reading the last 200 pages. Though that statement have become a cliche in book reviews, it is very true. Never before has a book been this intense. People who have read it may say I'm sick when I say this, but I actually had a lot of fun reading this book. Once you get into the revenge aspect, it becomes a morbid roller coster ride that is just great. This is the first time I've read the last pages to see who lives. Trust me, when things get going, it becomes an addiction. Now, for my sour apples. One thing I wish King would do is cut down on the violence a little. The characters getting shot in the head may help the stories roll, but I don't appreciate it in its splattery detail. Lastly, the ending is fairly happy for a King book, but it seemed blah to me. But, aside from these gripes, it is a great book, one of kings best.
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Summary: Stop the Overrating!
Review: People give out 10's on this thing way too easily. I think we should all be a little more objective. Needful Things was a decent enough book -- a great premise that gets bogged down in the middle and kind of crashes into chaos at the end. Not one of Steven King's best. But listen, people are giving 10's and then citing flaws in the book. Could we all reserve 10's for our top 3 favorite books of all time. How about a nice, refreshing 9 every once and a while?
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Summary: The best he's written thus far.
Review: Many of Stephen King's books have had the location on Castle Rock, Maine. King says his farewells to this town with one last story.
Leland Gaunt is the stranger in town. He has just opened his new curio shop called NEEDFUL THINGS. Everyone has a dream. Everyone has a price. Gaunt has learned to use his customer's dreams and wants against them.
It starts with 11 year old Brian. He finds a '56 Sand Koufax baseball card. It's his heart's desire. No money is not a problem. Do a little task for Gaunt and it is Brian's. The task is a high price, but not too high for Brian's dream. Just pull a simple prank on one of the towns folk. No one would ever know who did it. But Brian's victim assumes it was a rival and retaliates against an innocent person. This, in turn, causes more hate and more pranks.
Meanwhile, Polly can barely hold a glass due to her rheumatoid arthritis. NEEDFUL THINGS just happens to have a pendant that takes away all pain for her. For the first time in years, Polly has no pain. Just do a little task...just a prank, really...
Hell begins and pranks become deadly. How far will people go to get their dreams? But once you have had your dream, for even a moment, how can you give it up? What would you do to keep it?
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Summary: Time and hidden mysteries
Review: Here it is 1998 and in my rather sensable opinion, I claim that this is the last great book of the Stephen King legacy! In seven estranged years, King has yet to publish a book that intrigues my curiousity and wonder. His writing technique has greatly altered over the duration of years and his novels have become practically predictable. Will this be the Last Great One? Only King can answer that!
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Summary: one of the greatests books
Review: I live in Europe, in south of Hungary (in Szeged). I think Stephen King write ewrything, what European people think from the USA. This is a book from the experiences real and from the relations of friendly-world and dark-world. It's a masterwork from the horror.
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Summary: Needing to read
Review: This book was extremely good, too good, almost better than ''Misery'', but there were two flaws that kept this book from ranking with his best. No.1: Brian's crimes were too detailed, and No.2: when Nettie and Wilma killed each other, it was very gory. Other than that, King has scored again.
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Summary: A NOVEL THAT WILL NO DOUBT, REMAIN WITHIN YOUR MIND...
Review: What is so neat about this novel is how King places you in his small creation of Castle Rock, Maine, where you are the new resident living amonst Mertyl and Alan and Polly...This town is a smaller represnetation of every town, for there is always a Mr. Guant... It is so neat reading a book about a store in which posseses anything and everything your heart has ever desired, and we all know that their is that one thing standing in the limelight of our lives, that we would do almost anything for, and at Needful Things, the cost is not of the essence, but it is more, proving to an allegoriacal figure of the present figure--Satan, how much you want it and how much you will really do to get that one thing you have always desired. It is going great and Castle Rock has so many grins, but within the macabre price in which is to be paid, the citizens of Castle Rock realize when it is too late, they got soooooooo much more than they have barganed for. This book is one of his most original and creative works I have read to date. Great Job!
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