It really satirized that American idea that it’s good to have everything that you want. The story is set in the small, fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, where a new shop named Needful Things opens, to the curiosity of the townspeople. The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio.
And the way that it played out was funny, in a black-comedy way. Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic 1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire - but not without exacting a terrible price in return. 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. Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Stephen Kings 1 national bestseller about a store where Leland Gaunt can sell you whatever your heart. 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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