How Long to Read Lineage

How Long Does it Take to Read Lineage?

It takes the average reader 6 hours to read Lineage by Michael Paul Hurd

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

Description

Family roots are often based on legends passed on from one generation to the next. With those legends, certain inaccuracies are injected into the conversation - sometimes to avoid embarrassment; other times, to inflate the persona of the ancestor. Rarely are family histories totally accurate, and it takes significant research by an interested party to attempt to sort out the fact from the fiction. Even seemingly accurate information conveyed from one generation to the next is now genetically challengeable by the myriad of DNA tests that are available, often with surprising results. Regardless of the family information conveyed to successive generations, or the genetic accuracy of that information, each of our families have skeletons hidden in our closets that, until someone delves into them, remain safely hidden from unsuspecting or disinterested descendants. Once uncovered, however, those skeletons can be quite surprising in some cases and very enlightening in others. This book takes a look at one of those families - through the lens of an amateur genealogist who makes some pretty revealing discoveries along the way. There are murders and peccadilloes of all sorts, trysts, migrations, slave ownership, ties to both British royalty and New World "landed gentry," brothers against brothers in the American Civil War, and the full range of juicy tidbits that no family can escape. The information in this book is not laid out in chronological order; rather, the author chose to arbitrarily travel through time, both backward and forward in a series of vignettes, to visit some of the more interesting situations that were uncovered in the family that was the subject of his genealogical research. Each chapter has at least one element that is based on a historical fact. However, the details filled in around that central fact are based on the author's perception of what "might have been." The challenge throughout this novel was to seamlessly blend historical facts and fiction. Because the basic premise of the book is fiction, there is no bibliography to cite historical sources.

How long is Lineage?

Lineage by Michael Paul Hurd is 360 pages long, and a total of 90,000 words.

This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Lineage Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read Lineage aloud.

What Reading Level is Lineage?

Lineage 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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