How Long to Read A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms

How Long Does it Take to Read A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 14 minutes to read A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms by Robert Bennett

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

'A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms' is a mystery/detective novel, narrated by a quasi-legal investigator. The story is designed to convey the lore of tales grown and nurtured in the north woods. Although projected through the metropolitan framework of the San Francisco Bay Area, the story is more narrowly trained on the nuances and background of rural Oregon. Nibbling around the edges of that current American apprehension so recently spawned by multiculturalism, the book's focus is on the unmitigated fear of it all, working on the premise that the militia movement is not so very distantly removed from the recent boom in country and western music, celebrities buying large ranches in Montana, and a growing interest in folk art. The pending collapse of linguistic, ethnic and national borders, has forced people, with no reason to have previously questioned, to seek their cultural and ethnic heritage, a search often prompted by a sense of having misplaced something, or a need to define personal identity. An unanticipated result of reaching for those expatriated Americans, is a subsequent connection to that fringe intellectual segment of American culture, who look fondly back on the 1960s and who once read J.R.R. Tolkien, but have sadly acquired too much knowledge to any longer connect with Bilbo Baggins, and who sometimes reminisce across the wistful background of bluegrass music without projecting that neither the music nor this book could have developed anywhere else in time or place. This collective American identity crisis, personified by baby boomers raised on Dr. Spock and always urged to find themselves, has not been reflected in popular literature, except perhaps for a revised interest in nostalgic periodicals, such as The Western Horseman and Boots and Saddle, until now. A strong sense of cultural identity, along with a warm feeling of camaraderie, is advanced throughout this narrative, which is woven together through a story line of a mystery laced with understated humor. 'A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms' is a book designed to contrast relationships; relationships between urban and rural, past and present, hard/cold and warm/fuzzy, while accentuating the contrast between high-tech-international and home-spun-real.

How long is A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms?

A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms by Robert Bennett is 252 pages long, and a total of 63,504 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 47 minutes to read A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms aloud.

What Reading Level is A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms?

A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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Where Can I Buy A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms?

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