How Long to Read Omniphobia

How Long Does it Take to Read Omniphobia?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Omniphobia by Richard H. W. Dillard

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

Description

For R. H. W. Dillard, morbid gravity and exuberant absurdity are all of a piece. Omniphobia is seriously funny stuff, the reversible-wear fiction of a fiery imagination. These four stories and three novellas take place in a twilight zone where we have learned to fear the very things we used to trust, and their characters find themselves spilled onto the slippery slope of flux and change in the deadly fun house we call contemporary reality. The first of the collection's three sections, "Oh Love Love Love," opens with "The Bog," a novella both touching and uproarious. Cosmo Cotswaldo, Ph.D., undertakes to prove that nature can be entered into and controlled through the will. But when the chilly, humorless feminist Sara Band arrives on the scene, his attempts to manipulate this newly found power unleash the truth of his vulnerability to nature - in its tide of sexual forces, and ultimately in quicksand. The short story "Their Wedding Journey," which follows, is the ill-fated history of a marriage that circles (literally) around a wedding cake. The second section, "Way Down Yonder," contains a novella and two stories that address the distinct culture of the South while both satirizing and paying tribute to the body of literature that has attempted to define that culture. The third section, "Walking on Shallow Water," moves into darker and more dangerous territory. "The Death Eater" is the internal monologue of a diner chef who is obsessively repulsed by the killing and eating of animals. So hypnotic is the cadence of his thoughts that the reader almost overlooks the virulence of his actions. The final, title piece of the collection, "Omniphobia," is a novella with four ongoing narratives: an urban omniphobe, a "writer" who has not written in more than ten years; a political prisoner seeking escape, his mental state and movements painstakingly detailed; a punk-rock singer who wrenches his lyrics from his own experiences; and a catalog of phobias, from dread of flowers to omniphobia. It is an apocalyptic tale of fear and death and salvation that links back to the attempts at taking control and making sense described in "The Bog" - attempts that at last subside in a visionary surrender to a larger, vital whole.

How long is Omniphobia?

Omniphobia by Richard H. W. Dillard is 186 pages long, and a total of 47,616 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Omniphobia Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Omniphobia aloud.

What Reading Level is Omniphobia?

Omniphobia 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.

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