![]() He is obviously saying something about capitalism, small town paranoia, Christianity. ![]() This novel is the closest I've ever seen King go to outright satire. I understand that is pretty much the point of the novel Gaunt is manipulating everyone against each other and he is a supernatural being and all but I didn't feel that way about the characters in IT who were basically in the same boat. they were all just so stupid and hateful and all of their conflicts could have been solved with a conversation. The entire climax of the Catholics vs the Baptists. all the ridiculous idiot townsfolk turning on each other. The parts of the novel dealing with those characters were very engaging but every other part. ![]() I did sympathize with Nettie but I wasn't really engaged by her. Alan Pangborn, Norris Ridgewick, Polly Chalmers, Leland Gaunt, and Brian Rusk. ![]() In a novel with roughly one hundred characters I can list on one hand the characters in this novel that I was invested in. ![]() My central problem with Needful Things is that is is absolutely overflowing with characters who I not only don't care about, I actually actively dislike them. His writing has been described, I think by himself, as putting "ordinary people in extraordinary situations." That's what I love about his books. One of King's best qualities as a writer is his ability to create characters that we care about and think of as real. I had heard so many great things about this novel. ![]()
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