How Long to Read Learning to Love

How Long Does it Take to Read Learning to Love?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 41 minutes to read Learning to Love by Anton Wills-Eve

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

Description

'Learning to Love' is the first book in the telling of the life of my great friend Philip Hargreaves-Scott, and covers the years 1942 to the end of 1973. It is as he told it to me in two volumes. Book two, 'Now and Forever', covers the years 1974 to the end of 2018, and is published separately but simultaneously with this, to complete the series 'An Unbelievable Life.' I have used Philip as the narrator just as he was to me, and, as far as his life is concerned, the book is absolutely true. It begins with him telling the first part to another person as well as me. I hope it shows just how astoundingly different the 'icy cold war world' was spiritually, technologically, socially and morally compared to our digitally controlled internet times today. This first book is a compilation of memoirs of his first thirty one and a half years as he collected and wrote them in 1974. The first part 'Coming of Age' takes us through his first 18 years. It is filled with love, terrible sadness, the wonderful gifts of speaking five languages and being a really brilliant classical pianist despite a serious mental illness from the age of five. A deep love of God, his family's enormous wealth, years of sadistic abuse at school, love of two friends and above all his inability to ignore helping anyone in need, dominate his young world. How he managed to control his illness, with his great friends, Hugh Denton and Sally Jamieson, is in itself almost a fairy tale except that it happened. Part two, 'Discovering The World', concerns his life from the age of 19 to almost 32 describing his loves and multi-lingual adventures, in Paris and Italy, as a journalist at the second Vatican Council, while studying at three universities, The Sorbonne, Geneva and Pisa. Then follows his years as a war correspondent in Indo-China while also helping to run a refuge for blind orphans, adopting one himself, and continuing his astonishing missions of mercy and diplomatic espionage, mingled with great personal love and bereavement on three continents. This Book ends when he settles back in England after recovering from a helicopter crash in Cambodia.In the second book, written in 2018 from diary notes and memories stored on his computer, Part Three, 'The Piercing Arrows of Truth', covers the years during which he and Hugh continue their philanthropic life and many espionage missions around the globe. There is much sadness and happiness in these years too, including his disillusionment with his Church, as more abuse scandals come to light and even affect his own school and family. This is followed by his final acceptance of his faith in God, despite his terrible mental illness. Part three ends with the romances and marriages of all his and Hugh's children by the summer of 1990. Finally, Part four, 'The Digital World', is totally different and Pip's narrative style is forced to change for many reasons, leading to a true but quite extraordinary ending in the form of an unanswerable question. Throughout both books many well known people appear and Philip is friends with five heads of state and many famous broadcasters and entertainers. All events involving such named people are quite true in that they really happened. Of Pip himself I will say only this, for he would not. He is by far the most kind-hearted, loving, if devious while humorous, mentally tormented, musically gifted, charming and God-loving person I have ever known. Everything is true, in so far as it actually happened to him or his friends and members of their families. But, alas it must all be classed as 'faction', as many names have had to be changed as requested by living people for obvious reasons. But the real 'Pip' is still very much alive! Yet when all is said and done it is the role he and Hugh played in four of the most important world events during their lives that make these two books at once puzzling,romantic, mysterious and intriguing.Anton

How long is Learning to Love?

Learning to Love by Anton Wills-Eve is 454 pages long, and a total of 115,316 words.

This makes it 153% the length of the average book. It also has 141% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Learning to Love Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 30 minutes to read Learning to Love aloud.

What Reading Level is Learning to Love?

Learning to Love is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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