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4½✨

The thing with King is, it's all been said before. He is a master storyteller, and Needful Things shows it yet again.
Fiction weaved through with everyday truths that makes you go: 'this might actually just happen'
People will do just about anything for what they feel they need and deserve in life; even the honest will be blinded by what they think they need. King obviously took this to a whole new level, like only he can.

4⭐️

I‘m finding that I‘m coming to appreciate how long Stephen King‘s books are because I end up really caring about what happens by the end of them and appreciate how intricate details become once we reach the height of the conflict. It was so captivating to watch how much chaos came from these “little pranks” and the way the illusions gripped the realties of the townsfolk.

2025 reading so far

#HauntedShelf Book Scavenger Hunt #Dark
Team #DeadSerious @OriginalCyn620

Getting ready for my first trip to Maine…

I just got the tagged book and now I can say that I own every book Stephen King wrote! #losersclub

In honor of his birthday last week I picked this up. Thought I wouldn‘t enjoy it as much because I had seen the movie. Wrong. It‘s one of my favorite books this year. King, I don‘t think he gets enough credit for his knowledge of human nature. There‘s also some humor in here that made me chuckle out loud. For someone who loves horror and has been yawning at some recent horror movies, King made me drop my jaw in here a couple of times. Great stuff!

More outside reading today #stephenking

What would you pay for the very thing you want most? King‘s scare in this novel plays us against our own “I‘d do anything for that.” It‘s an age-old adage that rattles the very foundation of Castle Rock to its soul. Creepy throughout, this was a fantastic finish to my summer reading binge.

First book haul in 3 years!! The top 3 were $6.99 each from Book Outlet and the gorgeous cover of Needful Things is from Blackwell‘s.

This is a stressful book to read. King shows us an array of townspeople, encourages us to love them (or most, at least), then sticks a powder keg beneath them all, lights the fuse, and invites us to watch the "fun". While this book loses some points for me for abject crassness at times, it's ultimately a fulfilling, if frustrating read, and left me doubting the outcome until the final pages. 3/5

I see what you did there, Stephen...

This is always a tough read for me. King spends so much time on his depictions of Castle Rock's supporting cast, and we fall in love with most of them one by one. It's that love that makes their eventual spiral into destructive anarchy and madness that much harder to bear.

Dropped some stuff off at the charity shop today. And left with this... But this cost me £2 in total! I've read most of these, but don't own a copy of them. I reckon they all came from the same person. There were are few more without dust jackets that I left behind.

Maybe I can aspire to an SK bookshelf one day like @TrishB ❤️

Small town with lots of drama and violence and explosions! A tangled web of greed and evil. EXCELLENT ending and just an all around joy in the Stephen King Omniverse. Leland Gaunt is a fun villain and I would love to see him in other adventures.
The gore and adult content (not a lot is sexual) is strong in this book which is part of the entertainment. It's like a circus of insane people, pranks, suffering, and random objects.

This might be my favorite SK novel to date. Love the world building and the plethora of characters. And of course the beyond creepy atmosphere. Solid #scarathlon read. #bookspin #TeamMonsterMash @TheAromaofBooks @StayCurious

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My favourite Stephen King novel so far

Impractical things I wish had made it into the movie:
-Myra Evans pegging Elvis Presley
-"You know what a butt is, Brian? It's the place shit comes out of."
-"Open that gorgeous, metal-filled mouth and GOBBLE MY CRANK!"
-"Maine Bureau of Kaka. Maine Bureau of Assholes."
-Squeebles the cat

Nothing about Stephen King is more personally relatable than the obvious pleasure he takes in fictionally destroying a small town much like his own.

"The slate roof lifted off intact like some strange gabled spaceship, rose on a cushion of fire, then shattered into a hundred thousand jagged fragments."

"A stench that strong would kill you ... but first your eyeballs would pop and your hair would fall out and your asshole would seal itself shut in outraged horror."

Steve, quit referencing "song of the south," it's the gawddamn nineties.

I forgot Lester Pratt's middle name was fucking IVANHOE. 🤣🤣🤣

Danforth Keeton is so relatable it indicts me as a person. 🤣

The Wilma Jerczyk/Nettie Cobb fight scene makes me want a cigarette. I love both of those crazy bitches so much. I'd try to break the fight up, just so they'd heedlessly tear me to pieces between them. A three-way. 😍🥵🚬

"Keeton was beginning to relax again, but warily, as if he were afraid the mill whistle might go off again, just to goose him."

"She jumped again and sidled away a step, as if he had suggested she might like to come by the next day so he could pinch her bottom a few times, perhaps until she cried."
Today in odd similes.

In this early King novel, he explores small-town life and the depredations of greed on the better instincts of what were fine people. When a mysterious man, Leland Gaunt, opens a resale store in town, he starts using his wares to gain control of the townspeople and sow discord in their quiet village. Even some of the nicest people like the sheriff‘s girlfriend, Polly, are lured by items too tempting to resist. A fine study of the effects of greed!

May #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks 🌷

Library sale book haul from last week!

So excited to find the whole Broken Earth and Winners trilogy.

“The trust of the innocent is the liar‘s most useful tool.”

I‘ve always been intrigued by the fact that King considers this a comedy — especially considering how dark it gets in spots. From my perspective, this is a great example of rising tension, and proves King‘s ability to tear apart the world he‘s created in a grotesquely entertaining way.

Spooky Halloween reading with my little goblin Polly 🙀

#Screamathon #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks @4thhouseontheleft

It's been several years since I read this book and I felt it was time to finally revisit. I noticed so many details this time around that I didn't before.

Gaunt makes such a great character and the psychological manipulation is handled so well. This is still one of my top 10 King reads.

Still working on Needful Things 🙄

Adding the last 6:49:27 to the #20in4Readathon. Then Hoping to finish off Horrorstor before the end of the week. Fingers crossed 🤞

#Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick @Andrew65

Current read! This is a hefty one, so I'm going to try and get through what I can today while I'm off.

#Scarathlon2021 #TeamSlaughter #LittenListen #Bookspinbingo #SpookoweenReadathon #Screamathon #Wickedathon #Necronomathon #Readlikehellathon #ReadWithUs #HalloweenReadathon #ReadtheUSA2021 @Clwojick @TheAromaofBooks @TheSpineView @4thhouseontheleft @StayCurious @Patchshank @GHABI4ROSES @DieAReader

#20in4 starts now!
I'm starting with 📚 Needful Things,
but also plan to keep reading 📚 The Lying Game.
Thanks @Andrew65 for hosting!

#JulyJourneys
Needful Things: The Last #Castle Rock Story
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

I've now made this my 57th King read, it's a great book and the writing is excellent!

The whole book seemed to be a build up to what was going to happen with thd Needful Things store and it's owner and when the ending came around it was far too abrupt and limited to a few pages.

Other than that it was a enjoyable, atmospheric, character driven book.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3146359678?type=review#...

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I love Stephen King and I love Castle Rock. That is all. #20in4 one chunkster down!