How Long to Read Blood Lake and Other Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read Blood Lake and Other Stories?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Blood Lake and Other Stories by Jim Krusoe

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

Description

Jim Krusoe's beset and bemused narrators are awash in a solution of Donald Barthelme's worthy absurdities and Kafka's mutating humor. In these surreal, dystopian tales, characters find their way into and out of Plato's cave, mental hospitals, interspecies love affairs, plane crashes and Gypsy kidnappings. These narratives, which shapeshift and interpenetrate, contain everything form the rhapsodies of a night nurse, to a lyrical meditation on the egg, to lists of wryly named sexual positions. Krusoe's universe is full of amazing chaos and deadpan astonishment. When you enter Jim Krusoe's wittily indeterminate world, your first instinct is to grope around for a literary coordinate. At first he reminds you of Kafka: the dreamlike inconsequentiality and gentle-sinister comedy--the half-human animals and evanescent temptresses. But the America that Krusoe inhabits is spelt with a C, not a K. He is robustly situated in his time and place, and he has a lilt that is all his own. In the end, he stopped reminding me of anyone. Jim Krusoe is an original. -- Martin Amis

How long is Blood Lake and Other Stories?

Blood Lake and Other Stories by Jim Krusoe is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.

This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Blood Lake and Other Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Blood Lake and Other Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is Blood Lake and Other Stories?

Blood Lake and Other Stories is suitable for students ages 10 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.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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