How Long to Read Guests of the Ayatollah

How Long Does it Take to Read Guests of the Ayatollah?

It takes the average reader 11 hours and 50 minutes to read Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden

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

Description

The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal). On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them hostage for 444 days. In Guests of the Ayatollah, Mark Bowden tells this sweeping story through the eyes of the hostages, the soldiers in a new special forces unit sent to free them, their radical, naïve captors, and the diplomats working to end the crisis. Bowden takes us inside the hostages’ cells and inside the Oval Office for meetings with President Carter and his exhausted team. We travel to international capitals where shadowy figures held clandestine negotiations, and to the deserts of Iran, where a courageous, desperate attempt to rescue the hostages exploded into tragic failure. Bowden dedicated five years to this research, including numerous trips to Iran and countless interviews with those involved on both sides. Guests of the Ayatollah is a detailed, brilliantly recreated, and suspenseful account of a crisis that gripped and ultimately changed the world. “The passions of the moment still reverberate . . . you can feel them on every page.” —Time “A complex story full of cruelty, heroism, foolishness and tragic misunderstandings.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Essential reading . . . A.” —Entertainment Weekly

How long is Guests of the Ayatollah?

Guests of the Ayatollah by Mark Bowden is 710 pages long, and a total of 177,500 words.

This makes it 240% the length of the average book. It also has 217% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Guests of the Ayatollah Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 9 minutes to read Guests of the Ayatollah aloud.

What Reading Level is Guests of the Ayatollah?

Guests of the Ayatollah 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.

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

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