Riding The Bullet
Riding the Bullet has been released in digital form like The Plant. This novella was the first try of publishing in the Internet and now it is included in the collection Everything´s Eventual. Unlike The Plant Riding the Bullet has been made for movie like the other fictional works of the author, for example The Stand and Nightmares and Dreamscapes.
The main character is Alan Parker. He is a college student who must go to his mother after the fatal stroke. It is difficult to call the journey but most likely the destination, and then Riding the Bullet delivers.
Alan concentrates on his destination and his mother, her health state when he arrives there. Thinking of this he does not pay attention to the world around him when he goes to Lewiston, Maine. This journey is not good for him. But for readers it will be interesting.
He faces different drivers during his trip and sometimes these drivers are not so good and pleasant and Alan walks instead of driving. Then he meets ne more driver George Staub. And this name is familiar for Alan, he has came across on the tombstone with this name. This moment turns the story from the tale about young man who wants to go to his dying mother into the tale about young man who struggles with unknown fear.
It turns out that George knows more about life of Alan as for a stranger. George drives to Lewiston and he offers Alan to make a choice. Alan should let him take to the underworld or loss his own mother. Alan faces the emotion which comes into his heart. He is afraid of death and loves his mother. The feeling was strange.
The author has made a classic Twilight Zone which is written by Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson in 50th. However, Riding the Bullet is worth reading and it will keep a reader in suspense until the last page of the story.
