I listened to this 2 cd book on a road trip and it made the time fly. ( )

Cholesterol three speed art trip.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/12/stationary-bike-stephen-king.html ( )

Cholesterol three speed art trip.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/12/stationary-bike-stephen-king.html ( )

Listened to this book as audio.
The journey of a man to loss weight is a journey that many people can relate to. For Richard Sifkitz, the journey took him down a road that he did not expect to go down.
While most of Kings works have an element of suspence, this story was not very suspenceful. Slightly predictable and profuse with brand names, I sometimes felt I was in a commercial for all his favorite things.
Overall a light, quick and easy book to read/listen to. ( )

This is substandard for Stephen King as there is not too much high tension in the story. It has the usual twists that you read / listen to King for, so overall it is still a quite enjoyable tale. Not in the same class as "Road Virus Heads North", but it is similar. Stephen King does a very credible job of narrating his own story. ( )

When a man is told by his doctor that he needs to start taking care of himself, he gets himself an exercise bike. When he creates a fantasy world to help motivate him to keep riding, things begin to get out of hand. This was an entertaining story, even if there wasn't much substance to it. ( )

This was more like the classic King that I know & love. More so than some stuff of his that I had read. It got me motivated too. I decided to follow the same excercise plan & so far I'm down 20# & 28 points on the cholesterol. HEY! I'm proud of myself & it only took you about 5 seconds to read about it. Deal with it! LOL ( )

Amazon:

In classic Stephen King tradition, this audiobook reminds the listener that even something as ordinary as a stationary bike can have a devious nature to it. After a tongue thrashing from his doctor, Richard Sifkitz turns his addiction to fatty foods into an addiction to a fantasy world created around his stationary bike, spending hours a day pedaling away. But as his obsession grows, the lines between fantasy and reality dim and he believes someone or something is trailing him on his path. Ron McLarty, who previously recorded King's Salem's Lot and Faithful, delivers this novella with an excellent pace and easy disposition. His controlled reading creates a much tenser atmosphere with surprises and plot twists made more shocking without the advance warnings of a more dramatic reading. The jazzy segues between chapters lightens the tone just enough to make the listener feel uncertain about where King is taking this story. King's writing style is quite agreeable to the audio format, making for an enjoyable although slightly dark tale. This novella was published in the anthology Borderlands 5(Reviews, Jan. 19, 2004). (June)
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