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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Wacky pacing but done really well
It fell just short of 4 stars really, but I just couldn't give it 3. I picked a copy of this book up second hand simply because it was Stephen King and it was a hardcover. This has never landed on any essential reading list for SK.
Stephen King is one of those storytellers that makes me believe in muses, and Needful Things supports this belief. There was a point where I felt the story was dragging a little, but there was a whole town full of characters with a whole lot of history to cover. I never read parts that I felt could be cut out, but it did feel a little long.
Needful Things does, however, contain one of King's strongest endings. Granted, I have only recently started reading his books (it started with On Writing, which interested me so much that I moved on tov11.22.63, and then Carrie, Firestarter, IT, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Colorado Kid), but I have picked up that from time to time it is as if he struggles to say goodbye to his own story. Not Needful Things though, which makes me wonder whether he got tired of it...
Stephen King is one of those storytellers that makes me believe in muses, and Needful Things supports this belief. There was a point where I felt the story was dragging a little, but there was a whole town full of characters with a whole lot of history to cover. I never read parts that I felt could be cut out, but it did feel a little long.
Needful Things does, however, contain one of King's strongest endings. Granted, I have only recently started reading his books (it started with On Writing, which interested me so much that I moved on tov11.22.63, and then Carrie, Firestarter, IT, The Shining, Salem's Lot, and Colorado Kid), but I have picked up that from time to time it is as if he struggles to say goodbye to his own story. Not Needful Things though, which makes me wonder whether he got tired of it...
This is far from being my favourite Stephen King Novel I think his genius at creating thrill horror and suspense deserted him on this one. Each event is essentially the same buy cheap and pay a price that is unquantifiable. The "pranks" were repetitive and the development from those pranks basically predictable. It just didn't grab me but at least it was easy to speed readas there was simply no depth
I picked up the book because the concept seemed interesting, however knowing how long the book is and the fact that things, only ~200pages started going off, I just decided that I'm not particularly interested in it. I do think this book does have compelling stuff going on in it, but it just belabors for too long and I'm just forcing myself through it which. Is not particularly fun.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Sexual content, Grief
Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Sexual harassment
Minor: Racial slurs, Fire/Fire injury
Not his best work by far. Seemed like a very thinly veiled allegory about getting off of coke. Meh.
dark
medium-paced