Needful Things

Stephen King is hit or miss for me. Unfortunately this one falls into the later. While I enjoyed this book at first, after a while it just grew so repetitive. Go to the shop, buy something then owe a favor.....one hundred pages later go to the shop, buy something then owe a favor....one hundred pages later.....you get the drift. A serious round of editing could have chopped out unecesary bits and brought the action much quicker. I think the whole bit with the church groups could have been left out entirely. And I must confess by the 400s I was skipping forward to Alan's parts or Patricia's. I didnt really care about any other character and there were certainly enough to read about. I also couldn't comprehend the events towards the end. How did certain characters suddenly attain power? And what was the point of introducing poison? It did not add to the story line. Bottom line is, this book felt like it was full of filler and not enough decent story.