Needful Things -

Stephen King

Hodder & Stoughton

2011

937 páginas

1d 7h 14m

ISBN-13: 9781444707878

There was a new shop in town. Run by a stranger.

Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.

Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase. A perfect match for her living room decor.

Something for everyone. Something you really had to have. And always at a price you could just about afford. The cash price that is. Because there was another price. There always is when your heart’s most secret, true desire is for sale . . .

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3 (Bom)

Não é um dos melhores, mas também não um dos piores

"What’s the one thing in all the world, the one useless thing, that you want so badly that you get it mixed up with needing it?"

Voltamos a Castle Rock, e dessa vez pra ler mais uma história divertida sobre ganância, mesquinhez e comportamento de manada que toma proporções absurdas. O causador de tudo isso? Uma entidade -mais ou menos- como It, que se alimenta do sofrimento dos moradores locais.

Em geral não é tão aterrorizante, mas é divertido e interessante assistir aos eventos se escalando cada vez mais.
O final à la King é anticlimatico e até engraçado, pra mim.