Date Of Review: August 28, 2023
Review Left On GoodReads: Yes https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5810967734
Stationary Bike
Author: Stephen King
Started: August 31, 2023
Finished: August 31, 2023
Genre: Horror
Length: 1 hour 30 minutes
Part Of A Series: No
Type Of Book: Audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10575.Stationary_Bike
Review:
A typical Stephen King Story. It is in print in Just After Sunset, but I wanted to listen to it.
I think this story is about moderation. Most of us struggle with it. The bit about meditation/hypnosis is interesting. I tend to do things like that for tasks I do not want to do so it gets done faster.
If any of this happened to me, I would freak out. I don't usually freak out about anything but that would. And put me off exercise.
Goodreads Description:
Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist.
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly.
Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture -- and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go...and can't stay away from.