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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Stephen King goes into too much detail about things or people that don’t matter or really contribute to the story but I feel like that happens in every book lol other than that it was a great book!
This is a fun book. It is a nice exploration into desire. It makes me wonder what I would find if I walked into Needful Things.
Needful Things has officially taken the place of, and knocked out, Thinner in my top five list of Stephen King novellas. I dare say it even takes third!
This was such a fun read!
I've always been a huge fan of the movie adaptation and as is most often the case, the two are so different from one another!
The way the characters and their storylines are weaved so perfectly together in this story is absolutely amazing!
I also enjoyed seeing some of his other works resurface, such as revisiting the Cambers' place and Ace Merrill recalling events from The Body.
Needful Things definitely make the cut for one of my favorite reads so far this year!
This was such a fun read!
I've always been a huge fan of the movie adaptation and as is most often the case, the two are so different from one another!
The way the characters and their storylines are weaved so perfectly together in this story is absolutely amazing!
I also enjoyed seeing some of his other works resurface, such as revisiting the Cambers' place and Ace Merrill recalling events from The Body.
Needful Things definitely make the cut for one of my favorite reads so far this year!
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
The autumnal New England setting makes this a perfect book to read around the time of Halloween. There is a distinctly goosebumps flavour to this story that I very much enjoyed!
I was a little sceptical that the length of the book would mean that there might be some parts that would drag, but everything included felt relevant to the story.
Unfortunately this didn’t quite get 5 stars as there is a lot of build up and then the book ends pretty abruptly. However this is certainly worth a read and I think this should be up there with some of King’s better known works.
I was a little sceptical that the length of the book would mean that there might be some parts that would drag, but everything included felt relevant to the story.
Unfortunately this didn’t quite get 5 stars as there is a lot of build up and then the book ends pretty abruptly. However this is certainly worth a read and I think this should be up there with some of King’s better known works.
Yay, book 1 of 2022!!
I really enjoyed the concept of this books: typical small town and a new shop opens up—a where the thing you want most (but maybe you don’t know you want it) is for sale. But the cost is not in money, but in little tricks you play on seemingly random people throughout the small town.
I guess the reason keeping me from giving this 5 stars is the length of this book. It seemed to drag forever. King is a great writer, obvi, but I thought this book didn’t need to be 802 pages long. We don’t need to follow every waking second with these characters.
The ending also fell flat for me. Nothing is really solved. Alan Pangborn just randomly gets these god-like powers to scare Gaunt away??? Seems convenient.
Bummed by the execution, but the concept and the characters kept me invested enough to finish.
I really enjoyed the concept of this books: typical small town and a new shop opens up—a where the thing you want most (but maybe you don’t know you want it) is for sale. But the cost is not in money, but in little tricks you play on seemingly random people throughout the small town.
I guess the reason keeping me from giving this 5 stars is the length of this book. It seemed to drag forever. King is a great writer, obvi, but I thought this book didn’t need to be 802 pages long. We don’t need to follow every waking second with these characters.
The ending also fell flat for me. Nothing is really solved. Alan Pangborn just randomly gets these god-like powers to scare Gaunt away??? Seems convenient.
Bummed by the execution, but the concept and the characters kept me invested enough to finish.
This was a 2 day weekend binge—and I loved it. I couldn't stop!
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes