Martin's Reviews > Finders Keepers

I liked parts of this book. Stephen King kills J.D. Salinger while sticking a knife into John Updike. King describes a pair of books, much like describing the stories of Misery Chastain, and we'd like to read these fictional "Gold" books (which I interpret to be Updike's Rabbit books).

I did not like the action in the third act. The characters do to few things that seem reasonable. The inner dialog of some characters gets overdone. The leaps of faith in getting the characters into the correct place at the correct time with the correct motives would carry the readers across canyons.

It was surprising to read about a bookstore owner who was not a misunderstood genius, smarter and better than all of us normal humans. I can't think of one other book ever in which the bookstore owner is not near superhuman.