Bill Hodges is back. In Stephen King’s last novel had retired, fatty degeneration policeman to do with a mad mass murderer. Thanks to “Mr Mercedes” let Hodges Fernsehsessel and fast food behind and broke the case.
Meanwhile, the old man is pretty good shape, eating salad and vegetables Burger and successfully works as a private investigator. As punishment, he may only come into appearance in the second part of the planned trilogy as Bill Hodges series, when the novel is already around half. Stephen King is not for nothing that one of the best entertainment Writer’s World: What a boring how these bio-Bill interest but no Sau
A choleric young laborer mind. the anno 1978 his favorite writers shootin because who has made in his last novel from a cool main character a custom philistine? One who captured $ 20 thousand and 150 notebooks and all in a suitcase, the 30 or so years later finds a thirteen-year-old bookworm?
Saves With the money the thirteen-year marriage of his parents, and with the notebooks he saves himself, but then comes the choleric laborers from prison, and all he wants are, -. the notebooks. He wants more. Cost what it may. Yes, that’s more the stuff of which Stephen King makes a crime.
But the plane is not about chasing the investigator Bill Hodges on the Killer Morris Bellamy. The real drama is played out between Bellamy and the thirteen-year old Peter Sauber, two passionate readers, connected only by the journals of the murdered writer John Rothenstein, the Stephen King trains from JD
This Rothstein gave Salinger and the importance of Philip Roth. Created the American icon Jimmy Gold, a young rebel who turn to Holden Caulfield from JD Salinger “Catcher in the Rye” recalls. In the notebooks, the continuation of the novels by Jimmy Gold hides. And because both, the ex-con and the long-suffering son, find yourself in Jimmy, raise both entitled to his story.
The dangerous Fan
” finder’s fee “is about a king’s favorite theme: the relationship between literature and life, the author and his readers, the question of who actually owns a story if it is only on paper. The most famous example: Kings psychological thriller “Misery” (“You”), in which a nurse a writer cuts off various parts of the body to tie him to the bed, where he should be writing resurrect her last novel killed accommodated favorite character again
But the fanatical fan is in Stephen King’s work is always also a metaphor for addiction and obsession. Especially King has in the “New York Times” a text written about whether a particularly prolific author could also be a good writer. Ostensibly, it was about the notion that mass and class contradict itself. And no, he, King, of course, did not want to justify his own productivity.
With twenties or early thirties, King writes in the “New York Times”, it was received in his head like a full movie theater in which just someone “Fire!” I screamed and all rushed to the exit. “I had a thousand ideas, but only ten fingers and a typewriter There were days -. And I do about not joking, and I am not exaggerating – where I thought all the clamoring voices in my brain would drive me insane. ” Every author, so Kings Conclusion, write as much as he needed. In his case, it was just about one book a year.
But it was a pity that there is, for example, by Donna Tartt and Jonathan Franzen, two of the best writers that America currently have to offer, the only way read little there. That reminded him always at this lunch in a restaurant many years ago when he was still struggling with his alcohol addiction.
pop culture rather than alcohol
Since two elderly ladies were sitting at the next table, with two glasses of wine, they talked animatedly and ate and did not touch on their glasses. At that time he had been dry for only a short time to get up he had because want and both revile desolate: “Why are you drinking your wine does not ‘, I wanted to say, for God’s sake, he stands in front of you, some of us can not.! drink wine that do not have this privilege, you already, so why the fuck do not you do it! ‘”
The parable describes not only the alcoholic she also reveals a lot about the author and reader of Stephen King, a man possessed, for the pop culture has replaced the alcohol. The drunk with books and pursuing television series and lost in the movie; and the voices and ideas in his head that do not end up in his novels, will find their way into products or Tweets, has built up with the help of King, a close relationship with its readers.
is this sense “reward” is less a thriller as it is a love story. Fate has placed itself between him and the notebooks as Romeo and Juliet, Bellamy says once. He loves Jimmy gold, it is Gold Jimmy – he’s finally a protagonist. He drags his narrow, neglected shoulders no longer simply an everyday misery of nasty mother, unemployment and imprisonment harassment. He is the hero of his own story. So he has his life under control, even if it’s a shitty life.
But what if a person who is not capable of empathy, becomes an identificatory reader? Then the synapses burn through. And suffer, the counterpart to the devilish book fools Morris Bellamy: the star pupil with the telling name: Peter Sauber. Also it changed Jimmy gold. But to his advantage. He also needs the journals. But in order to do good. Peter devises a plan, which is worthy of a hero. Until Bellamy puts him on the Pelle.
One could argue that “reward” a bad crime is. Because occur as an investigator Bill Hodges and his from “Mr. Mercedes’ famous helpers on the scene and the chase begins, thus begins the most mundane part of the novel.
But the hunting of the Morris Bellamy on Jimmy Golds history, hunting on his own story, and the desperate attempts Peter Sauber ‘, from the dangerous nodes of reality and fiction, in which he becomes entangled , again to come out – this is one of the most entertaining reflections on the life-changing power and the limits of literature, which has produced the contemporary literature: This is the real crime. Maybe a little too bold, sometimes a bit cheesy – but damn exciting to read
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