Needful Things

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Summary: The Description of Evil....
Review: From the only man who can describe pure evil. Needful Things is a jawdropping tale of evil in a Maine town. The only things I know about Maine come from Stephen King novels and the more Stephen King novels I read, the more I want to go there. As usual the King is not afraid to write down everything from his mind of insanity and this book is not exception, he is undoubtely the greatest American author and dare say the world!!!!
While this is a great novel, note to the squeamish or to parents: this novel like almost all of Stephen Kings novels is quite graphic, don't be surprised if it talks about a knife going into someones stomach in really graphic detail. The detail will scare the living crap out of you, it will make you afraid to go to sleep, it will make you cry, it will make you angry and if you can't hold in your hormones, it will make you aroused, which brings me to my next point: Parents of kids who are too young to be read Stephen King(5-12), the language is really obscene, there is graphic violence, and there is graphic sexual content including sex, masturbating, male/female sex organs and just stuff your children shouldn't know about. But, that doesn't mean that teenagers can't read Stephen King, they just shouldn't start here. I suggest newcomers into the world of Stephen King should read his early stuff like Salem's Lot, the Gunslinger, or the Dead Zone.

(I know I probably didn't give a good enough review for five stars, but I'm used to doing music reviews, so I'm just now doing book reviews, so just bare with me.)

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Summary: Normal but imaginative to a little extent
Review: Well I don't see what all this hype about Stephen King is. The man is a fool especially with Dreamcatcher. His books are poor, the language is profane and it isn't that interesting if at all. And what is this sick attraction he has with Dracula? I mean I love that book too and it is possibly one of the best gothic novels ever written but for somebody like king to steal a phrase (the end of chapter 1 of needful things) "enter freely and leave some of the happiness you bring" Anne rice and all other horror wanna-be's are lame. All the old horror masters are gone now, so people must contend with mediocre, retarded and very secular novels. Well they haven't read mine, and never will.

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Summary: Wonderful Read!
Review: I just finished reading this book by Stephen King and I had to write a review on it immediately! This is an astounding piece of work that Stephen King has written, and of all the books that I have read of his, I would definitely consider `Needful Things' as one of his best!

The story revolves around a shop called `Needful Things', which has just opened in the small town of Castle Rock. At first, everyone is very curious to get a glimpse of exactly what the shop holds. The shop is led by a mysterious man named Leland Gaunt, who seems to have, in stock, everything that each and every citizen in Castle Rock desires. However, in exchange for money, he asks his customers to perform small deeds for him, which seems playful, but ultimately leads to disastrous consequences.

King has a magical way of bringing a whole town together in this book. We get to read about each and every citizen, their relationships with the others, and how drastically their lives change after a short period of time. You feel for many characters in this book, especially Nettie Cobb, Brian Rusk, Polly Chalmers and Myrtle Keeton. From the purchase that Brian Rusk makes at the shop, till the final battle between good and evil, we are taken in with the story. Leland Gaunt, the owner of Castle Rock is one of the best villains King has created. Gaunt will seem like an angel in one scene and will frighten you in the next. The only other villain I found to be as convincing as Gaunt was Flagg (from King's `Eyes of the Dragon').

"Needful Things" was the last Castle Rock story that Stephen King wrote and what an exciting book it was! If you have not read this book yet, make it a priority to pick it up when you take a trip to your bookstore.


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Summary: Warning! Adult Content! (254)
Review: I think that everyone should read <u>Needful Things</u> by Stephen King. It's a 750 some odd page book, but it is a real page turner. Compared to most King books, <u>Needful Things</u> moves *very* fast. It really taps into the truth of human nature and materialism -- I don't want to buy <em>anything</em> at all <strong>ever again</strong>. As usual there is a heroic male character with an emotional Achille's heel which he has to overcome to "save" the female character. If you've never read a Stephen King book, they are the only two characters that survive usually -- not even the dog. King doesn't seem to like dogs.



The only negative I could give you is just a complaint about King's writing style: One minute you're reading a wholesome horror novel and the next thing you know one of the character's is talking about a woman's "hard erect nipples" or other nonsense like that. I have no objection to "hard erect nipples" in literature, sometimes its appropriate -- but King likes to *randomly* insert pornographic language which adds nothing to the content and really intterupts the flow of the novel [ wrote the blogger who's nipples were hard and erect ] -- SEE! Do you see how that was jarring and interuptted my review?



<u>Needful Things</u> was most definately worth my time and as such I will give it a five out of five. Five what you ask?



Hard Erect Nipples.

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