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talking_to_trees 's review for:
Needful Things
by Stephen King
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...