How Long to Read Level Up

By Micah Joel

How Long Does it Take to Read Level Up?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 26 minutes to read Level Up by Micah Joel

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

Description

Ready Player One meets Mr Robot.In the future, all computers simultaneously brick--except, as it turns out, those from the 80s. Society retools around retro tech. Max Root, a refugee in a tent camp, starts seeing 8-bit visions, ultimately leading up to playable game levels. What's at the end of the level, though, is of intense interest to the greedy CEO of the LevelUP corporation, and the fate of the all technology hangs in the balance.Have you ever had your heart race as you typed 'take sword'?Have you ever lined up quarters on an arcade machine?Have you ever been disappointed that your princess was in another castle?Have you ever joyfully exclaimed 'unexplored territory!' as you uncovered a hidden passageway?Have you ever spotted sly Star Wars references in a novel you were reading? Have you ever been eaten by a grue?Then this is the book for you! Something delightful on every page. Escape to a simpler time inside the pages of LevelUP. Interview with the Author Q - Where did the idea for this book come from? A - I grew up in the 80s. I spent weeks freezing my butt off on a paper route, just to afford the latest Atari 2600 cartridge. (But never Adventure--my mom wouldn't allow that one). I set out to write a book that would be "cyberpunk lite" and appeal to a particular set of readers. Around the same time GameLit or if you prefer, LitRPG started taking off. Q - Tell us about the cover and the inspiration for it. A - I worked with a number of designers on various concepts. Some of them were 80s nostalgia to points approaching self-parody. There were a lot of video game references, but I ended up with something more iconic. I wanted a "LevelUP" logo that would look good on a shirt. And those sweet, sweet NES fonts. Mmmmm, memories. Q - Who is your inspiration for Max, the adventure's protagonist? A - I had sketched out a character named Max Root before I even started work on the novel. I've got a thing for characters whose name describe the plot of their story. (Ender's Game, anyone?) And yeah, that's an explicit reference to Max Headroom. From there, his backstory blossomed out. All it was waiting for was the right premise to build a story around. Q - OKQ - So you are working on more books in the series? A - There's a lot of hints here about the wider world the story takes place in. There's an obvious direction for a sequel (sorry, no spoilers here!) but lots of alternate ways things could go too. And astute readers have already keyed in on the possibility of crossover between this and Broken Tablet, my time-travel novel... Q - Why should readers give this series a try? A - Like most everything I put out, it's written for geeks, by a geek. It has a sympathetic main character, and an non-neurotypical secondary character. It certainly echoes certain themes of that blockbuster movie everyone's talking about, but this story takes great pains to go its own way. This book is the antidote, at least temporarily, for all the anxiety and stress going on in the world.Thanks for reading!

How long is Level Up?

Level Up by Micah Joel is 323 pages long, and a total of 81,719 words.

This makes it 109% the length of the average book. It also has 100% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Level Up Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 26 minutes to read Level Up aloud.

What Reading Level is Level Up?

Level Up 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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