Needful Things
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B018ER7JZ4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 343 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now available for the first time in a mass-market premium paperback edition—master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire—but not without exacting a terrible price in return.“There are two prices for this. One half is cash. Half…and half. In other words, let the buyer beware…. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. Do you understand?"The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is a peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business. And no one takes heed of the little sign handing on the wall: Caveat emptor. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting things that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and—at the specific request of Leland Gaunt—a whole lot of menace a
Written in my favorite King style Written in my favorite King style, a story about a small town with a twist. It explores the depths of relationships in a small community through psychology; how can you manipulate someone through their desires? Once they have their heart's desire, how low wi. Long Story King is a master at taking his readers into the minds of his characters. Books like The Shining or Pet Semetery bring you into the crazy minds of the hurting. This book is no different in that King brings you into a small Maine town full of demons when a new. WynterFire11 said Another Great Creepy Tale from the Master of Horror. I've been a Stephen King fan for many years, and this is one I thoroughly enjoyed from start to finish. The storyline was unique and drew me in right away--a must for books, as readers and writers (and agents and editors) are aware. The characters were inter
. Of grand proportion, the novel ranks with King's best, in both plot and characterization. A new store, Needful Things, opens in town, and its proprietor, Leland Gaunt, offers seemingly unbeatable (read: Faustian) bargains to Castle Rock's troubled citizens. These are only three of the half-dozen or so brilliantly drawn people met in the novel's one-month time span. As the dreams of each strikingly memorable character, major and minor, inexorably turn to nightmare, individuals and soon the community are overwhelmed, while the precise nature of Gaunt's evil thrillingly stays just out of focus. Among them are Polly Chalmers, lonely seamstress whose arthritis is only one of the physical an