What it turned out to be, I thought, was a satire of the whole Ronald Reagan ethos of “greed is good, consumerism is good.” To me, it was a hilarious concept. I thought, “What if somebody came to this town and forced all these people to do nasty things like pranks to get things that they really wanted. King: Of all the books I’ve written that have gotten lousy reviews - and there have been some that have - I would say I’m most disappointed in this one just sort of missing the mark critically. In this novel, he wipes the town off the map after a man who may or may not be the devil opens up a shop that offers the residents of Castle Rock anything their heart desires - for a price. King had already set several of his novels (The Dead Zone, Cujo, The Dark Half ) in the town of Castle Rock, Maine, by the time Needful Things (690 pages) came around.
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