finders keepers stephen king book review

Told through all their viewpoints, the theme's exposition had me gasping with dismay, horror and, yes, excitement, throughout the 370 pages. As for the second part, it introduces several other characters and alternates his viewpoint with theirs. The first part of the novel, dealing with the initial crime and its aftermath, is hence mainly situated in Bellamy's headspace. This being a Stephen King novel, there's plenty of blood, gore and dropping bodies as Bellamy leaves a trail of deathly destruction in pursuit of his obsession. King seems to hint – a nightmaric scenario for the Western Enlightenment – that no amount of exposure to beautiful ideas will change him. Stephen King makes us ask: what led a 'well-brought-up' boy to commit the ultimate crime? Where did his upbringing go wrong? The answer, King suggests, doesn't lie in the upbringing, but Bellamy's heart. He is also a robber, rapist and murderer of one of America's leading writers. Morris Bellamy, the son of a writer, is a self-confessed American Lit scholar. That a person with a middle-class milieu – 'well-raised' – can have criminal potential is explored convincingly and scarily. Will bright, likeable Pete Sauber and his family get through Bellamy's attack in one piece? What happens to Bellamy? And finally, why did he do what he did at all? In its attempts to answer these questions, the novel becomes a page-turner. So when Bellamy learns that Sauber has the manuscripts – which now become the purpose of Bellamy's life – he goes on a bloody rampage to get them back. He tries to sell them to a dealer in rare books, who, as luck would have it, is Bellamy's friend. Years later, the money is spent, and only the manuscripts remain with Sauber.

Finders keepers stephen king book review