Needful Things
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Needful Things
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Narrated by:
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Stephen King
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Written by:
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Stephen King
About this listen
Stephen King's number-one national best seller about a store where Leland Gaunt can sell you whatever your heart desires - sexual pleasure, wealth, power, or even more precious things - but not without exacting some price in return.
Leland Gaunt opens a new shop in Castle Rock called Needful Things. Anyone who enters his store finds the object of his or her lifelong dreams and desires: a prized baseball card, a healing amulet. In addition to a token payment, Gaunt requests that each person perform a little "deed", usually a seemingly innocent prank played on someone else from town. These practical jokes cascade out of control, and soon the entire town is doing battle with itself. Only Sheriff Alan Pangborn suspects that Gaunt is behind the population's increasingly violent behavior.
Praised as "tremendous...wonderful...one of King's best" (Kirkus Reviews).
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- Buyer832
- 2018-09-19
Always do what mr. Gaunt says!
Nice to listen to the author express himself.
Excellent listen with nail biting sequences. #Audible1.
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- Elle
- 2023-04-12
Favorite King book
My favorite novel by Stephen King.
For those who have watched the movie the book in all its detail is so much better. You are in for a treat.
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- Chris Neff
- 2018-09-19
Excellent
Excellent story and Stephen king does an awesome job with narrating his own book #Audible1
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-05-31
my personal favorite king story!
Just a great book, read it when i was 14, but enjoyed it just as much in my 40s. I especially loved Stephen as the narrator he always does such a great job reading his work. Love it!
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- Tracy Dixon
- 2023-05-05
another king masterpiece
Another masterpiece by king I only give it a four because it's not my favorite of his books the still is held by It but as far as story and delivery and just overall majesty this I an incredible book highly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-02-24
Amazing!
Descriptive has depth. Great character development, where you can vividly enjoy the story. Steven King is an outstanding author. The audio-book does do the tale justice.
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- Gabriel Elias Felsberg
- 2023-07-10
Very well done!
The story is well read by the author and the music and some sound effects helps us enjoy this version to the details.
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- Tina
- 2023-08-09
great book talking in background
great book, there's talking in the background on at least chapter 7...it's driving me crazy right now lol
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-09-08
Excellent !
Nice to hear it read by the author himself. This way you get to hear it the way he intended .
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- A
- 2018-11-28
Destruction of a town
I really enjoyed this book. Kings narration is spot on and he gives the characters great life. I didn't overly love the sound effects that were added in the background though. Besides the bell when somebody enters the store which I found work very well. this story is very violent near the end especially when the breadth spans the entire town. I really like the premise of this book being that many of us will do a seemingly small but bad thing to get something we want. as with some other of King's stories I found that the climactic battle seen went on a little bit too long. overall though lots of connections to the rest of the King universe and very enjoyable book.
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