How long does it take to read Riding the Bullet?
Riding the Bullet by Stephen King takes about 1 hour 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 43 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2000. 94 pages, about 25,850 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When he gets a call that his mother has suffered a stroke, college student, Alan Parker, has no car to get him from the University of Maine campus to Lewiston where she has been hospitalized. He is able to hitch a ride with a stranger who offers him a no-win choice.
Subjects: horror, stroke, hitchhiking, headstones, amusement rides, short stories
