It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Faria
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The classic novel of the 1960s"€"an unerring corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt. Richard Faria evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering"€"among other things"€"mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, as Thomas Pynchon wrote, "comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch." "A marvelous storyteller, Faria is fit to join the company of Kerouac, Kesey, and Pynchon." "€"San Francisco Chronicle
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Faria is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me aloud.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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