Finders Keepers: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy) (edition 2016)

by Stephen King (Author)

Series: Bill Hodges Trilogy (2), Holly Gibney (2)

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"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" -- ""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years" --… (more)

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Title:	Finders Keepers: A Novel (The Bill Hodges Trilogy)
Authors:	Stephen King (Author)
Info:	Pocket Books (2016), Edition: Reissue, 544 pages
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ragazzino trova refurtiva, salva famiglia sul lastrico,tenta de vendere romanzo inedito (

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LLonaVahine | May 22, 2024 |

One of my personal projects this year is going back and finishing some series I started long ago but didn't finish. I read Mr. Mercedes back in 2014, but despite liking it I never got around to reading the rest of the trilogy despite buying the books. Here we go!

Stephen King pays homage to himself as he pairs elements from Misery and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption with one of his stock heroes -- an intelligent teen boy who likes to read and aspires to write -- in a satisfying little thriller about a famous author ratholing unpublished manuscripts (see also, Bag of Bones) and the lengths a fan will go to to read them.

Ostensibly, this is the middle book of the Bill Hodges trilogy, but Bill and his colleagues, Holly Gibney and Jerome Robinson, don't really show up until page 157 and barely impact the rest of the story at all. Truly, they could be scraped out of the tale with very little editing, which causes me to entertain a theory that King might have inserted them into an existing (ratholed) or in-progress manuscript when his publisher asked for a quick sequel to Mr. Mercedes. Regardless, this book is obviously biding time until Hodges can have a final confrontation with his true nemesis.

Still, it's hard to dislike Stephen King when he's in the groove, and this book zips right along. (

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villemezbrown | Apr 25, 2024 |

Shit don't mean shit. -Holly (

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cmpeters | Feb 2, 2024 |

My review of this book can be found on my YouTube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/q945Aqt6FeA

Enjoy! (

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booklover3258 | Jan 6, 2024 |

Not a bad direction for the trilogy, I really enjoy the turn this series seems to be taking. There was a little too much reflection on the first book for my taste - it some parts it made sense to look back and remind us of the first book but in some parts it just got to be excessive (

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mancinibo | Nov 30, 2023 |

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
King, Stephen	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Kleinschmidt, Bernhard	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Patton, Will	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rekiaro, Ilkka	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Bill Hodges Trilogy (2)

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The Bill Hodges Trilogy Boxed Set: Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch by Stephen King

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Awards

Audie Award (Finalist – Best Male Narrator – 2016)

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Amazon's Best Books of the Month (June – 2015)

Amazon.com Best Books (Mystery, Thriller & Suspense – 2015)

SPIEGEL-Bestseller (2015)

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Canonical title

Finders Keepers

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

2015-06-02

People/Characters

Important places

City Center

Northfield

Talbot Corners, New Hampshire, USA

Waynesville State Prison, USA

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Epigraph

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life." Joseph Campbell

"Shit don't mean shit." Jimmy Gold

Dedication

Thinking of John D. MacDonald

First words

"Wake up, genius."

Quotations

For readers, one of life’s most electrifying discoveries is that they are readers—not just capable of doing it (which Morris already knew), but in love with it. Hopelessly. Head over heels. The first book that does that is never forgotten, and each page seems to bring a fresh revelation, one that burns and exalts: Yes! That’s how it is! Yes! I saw that, too! And, of course, That’s what I think! That’s what I FEEL!

A good novelist does not lead his characters, he follows them. A good novelist does not create events, he watches them happen and then writes down what he sees.

No. I was going to say his work changed my life, but that’s not right. I don’t think a teenager has much of a life to change. I just turned eighteen last month. I guess what I mean is his work changed my heart.

Shit don't mean shit.

His chief interest was in reading fiction, then trying to analyze what he had read, fitting it into a larger pattern.

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English

Canonical DDC/MDS

813.54

Canonical LCC

PS3561.I483

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"A masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far--a book about the power of storytelling, starring the same trio of unlikely and winning heroes King introduced in Mr. Mercedes" -- ""Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he's released from prison after thirty-five years" --

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"Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famously beloved character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the non-conformist Jimmy Gold sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away in a high-security prison for a different crime. Decades later, a young teen named Pete Saubers, whose father was injured in the Mr. Mercedes killings, finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family whom Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more-deranged and vengeful Morris when he is released from prison after thirty-five years - and wants his money and his notebooks back.

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