How Long to Read All Roads Are Circles

How Long Does it Take to Read All Roads Are Circles?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read All Roads Are Circles by Tom Bentley

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

Description

Virgin Territory is set in Canada in the mid-70s. It is a coming-of-age story, centered on two young American men who go on a hitchhiking trip together just after high-school graduation. Gil, from whose point-of-view the novel is told, is naive, bumbling and sincere, and a 17-year-old virgin, a condition that propels much of his inner and outer questing on the trip. He's concealed his situation from Alan, his best friend and his companion on the journey. Alan is cynical, and much more worldly than Gil; the fact that he is, beneath much sexual braggadocio, also a stealth virgin is one of the curves in the work's road. From the start, the journey is impelled by tension between the two, exacerbated by Alan's emotional difficulties in having been the driver in a recent car accident that paralyzed his younger brother. Gil and Alan move by thumb east from Vancouver, encountering many peculiar drivers and strange situations. The novel moves into its higher gears when the two meet Mary, a fellow hitchhiker. Mary is realistic and tough and—in a guarded way—kind. Alan and Gil are both attracted to her, though neither can summon the chutzpah to act on their desires. The three travel together, with tensions rising. The last quarter of the novel is set in an apple orchard, where they meet again with Genesis, a character from an earlier road encounter. Genesis is a “mystic of the road,” whose wholesale hybridizing of all the world's religious philosophies enthralls Gil. He is a central figure at story's end. The story has some of the rollicking elements and motion of On the Road, with some of the episodic humor of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The endless summer that Gil had envisioned never existed, but he does learn that friendship is earned under fire, at a weighty emotional cost.

How long is All Roads Are Circles?

All Roads Are Circles by Tom Bentley is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read All Roads Are Circles Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read All Roads Are Circles aloud.

What Reading Level is All Roads Are Circles?

All Roads Are Circles 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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