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Summary: How much does one need something!
Review: I don't know if I'd commit murder for a statuette or if I'd throw turkey dung on someone's washing and break all their windows for a baseball card but that's exactly what happens in this book. The movie was terrible in my opinion so I'm glad I read the book BEFORE seeing the movie otherwise I never would have picked the book up.
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Summary: An amazing book!
Review: This is a kind of a book only Stephen King can write.The story is great and the characters are so well described that I could actualy see every one of them in my mind. This book is a fiction but I found myself thinking what would I do if I were in the same position as the people from Castle Rock. I certanly reccomend it.
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Summary: Awesome!!!!
Review: This book is a little confusing at first but tends to get interesting with a lot of action near the end. Pick this book up because it is the final Stephen King book about Castle Rock!
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Summary: A King fan's must!
Review: Stephen King is one of those authors who are capable of making a great beginning, start an intriguing plot, and then let it all slip through their fingers and give the lamest of explanations for it. This book is not so.Aside of a good horror story, it brings a premise of human's tendency to look for easy sollutions and for achieving material without earning it. It also has a very good plot, and the best part of it is Mr. Leland Gaunt, an absolutley enchanting villain that is one of best King's character I've read about - he has some evil, dark sensuality and great intelligence you will see in Vampires, so different from King's usual devillish character we see in the "Stand" and other books. But there are also minuses. This book is too long, has too many undeveloped characters, and once again King relies on stereotypes more than solid characterisation which makes the book shallow at times. But, a great book - not as realistic as "Cujo", not as powerful as "Dolores Clairborne", not as thrilling as "The Shining", but we've seen worse from King. And a little subjective note: I really do prefer Satan and occult to lame plots involving aliens.
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Summary: 300 words too many
Review: A very interesting idea, but this is an example of how for sometime King seemed to have fallen in love with the sound of hearing himself type. Yet another example (much like insomnia) where king seems to ramble on much too long. The storytelling not nearly as tight as recent works. Not a bad story (though yet another horrible movie conversion) but hardly Kings best. If you have a very loooong flight to take and there is nothing else available you might give it a try.
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Summary: a needful novel
Review: 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 Gaunt. The storyline centres around Gaunt's new store on Main Street, Castle Rock - a shop called 'Needful Things'. By seemingly coincidence, the shop always stocks the one true desire of each and every customer who enters under the green awning. And it is always affordable - in many instances, the price is just the loose change in your hip pocket. The reason for this is that Gaunt is not interested in monetary assets - it is souls he is after. Each purchase made comes with a small prank to be played on an unsuspecting member of the small town. As pranks get more serious, and more and more people realise their heart's desire lies within the new store, the town descends into chaos. King's ability to develop so many characters, and the fact that they are ALL so different, and so interesting, made this book my needful thing. I found it more entertaining than horrific - only one scene disgusted me, when Polly found out what was really inside her arthritic-curing charm. The final one hundred pages were told beautifully, and in my mind it was easy to imagine the chaos descending, as explosions and murders happen almost every minute. Overall this was an brilliant, excellent example of story telling. This was my first King novel - and it definitely will not be my last.
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Summary: Goodbye Castle Rock
Review: This is a wonderful book. When the Devil (AKA Leland Gaunt) opens his Needful Things shop in town, there is something for everyone if they are willing to pay the price (mainly there soul). What kind of things praytell. Well for 11 year old Brian its a baseball card, for Polly a necklace that soothes her arthritus for Ace it's a fast car. Strange, shortly after the shop opens, towns people who have known each other for years are starting to kill one another. Why? That's what Sheriff Panghorn wants to know. One thing for sure. This is a wonderfully well constructed and entertaining novel. It has minimal blood and gore like in other horror novels, including those by Mr. King; however, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Everyone has a needful thing..........
Review: I loved this book, not only because King wrote it, but because the book was created off of human emotion. Mr. Leland Gaunt, owner of 'Needful Things' lived off of human desires and what they literally and ultimately would die for. See, Mr. Gaunt knows everything and knows exactly what it is that you like or want. He knows that before he even meets you. And he lets you have the item desired for the money in your wallet and a small "trick" of some kind to be played on someone. He knew Brian Rusk would do anything for a baseball card and knew Polly Chalmers would just about 'sell her soul' to rid her of her severe and agonizing arthritis. His charm is only skin deep because Gaunt is an evil being who tries to destroy a town by 'hot-wiring' them to their enemies. He leads a trail to a certain person to make it look like it was them who 'played the trick' but in essence it was somebody else. The book should keep your interest the whole way through, simply by wondering what will happen next. The ending was somewhat of a disappointment but nothing that made me regret the fact that I read it...
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Summary: Needful Thing
Review: In the town of Castle Rock, there are some strange things that happen. There is a new store that is opening called "Needful Things". This store sells anything that your heart desires, such as wealth, and so many other things that you may want or need. The owner of Needful Things is a guy that goes by the name of Mr. Gaunt. He is an older guy that has just move to the town and put a store in the middle of downtown. When he first moves to the town he, had been getting weird looks from all of the people in the town of Castle Rock. This store has some special and unique things that are very special to certain people and somethings that people just like because of the look of the item. There is only one thing that the people have to do before they can have a certain item and that is to play pranks on a person Mr. Gaunt tells them to do it to. After they have done the prank, then they will get the item that they had purchased for a cheaper price. But the thing that none of these people realize is that they are going to have things happen to them because they have pulled pranks on other people in the town of Castle Rock. Sooner or later, the people that are having these pranks done to them are going to find out who is doing these things and are going to want revenge. When this day comes, you know that Mr. Gaunt is going to be sitting their laughing because evil has done a good job on his shopping spree. This chilling novel by Steven King will have you scared out of your wits. So beware that if you ever go to Castle Rock, you may just meet evil on your shopping spree. Amy Freeland
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Summary: john coffen's power
Review: i am very impresed from the charecters of the green mile and also from the other stiven's books
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