How Long to Read Peripatetic Postcards

How Long Does it Take to Read Peripatetic Postcards?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 20 minutes to read Peripatetic Postcards by T. J. M. Holden

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

Description

Cabbies and hucksters, adventurers and athletes, cops and clerks, prisoners and thieves, stews and tour guides, homeless and gangsters, drunks and swingers, pets and day trippers. These are some of the personalities encountered along the author's journey through 25 of the world's cities--stops that include: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lisbon, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, Singapore, Taipei and Vienna.The resulting travelogue--an outgrowth of the author's travelblog in the e-zine PopMatters--is a headlong hurtle through space and ideas; a compilation of interlinked short stories, sketches, still-lifes, and engaging vignettes which will prompt readers to chuckle, ponder, dream, rejoice, and occasionally cringe and rage. Peripatetic Postcards is more than people and place, though; and beyond "how to" and "when in Rome". Above all, it is literary memoir of being and becoming; a set of lessons about life and musings on the human condition by a writer searching to find his way. Its larger mission is to document life's passage: the road to inner discovery achieved through external excursion.By turns literary, ironic, humorous, hip, philosophical, educational, thought-provoking, serious, compassionate, fearful, hopeful, inspirational, and introspective, Peripatetic Postcards is bursting with energy, attitude, wisdom and verve, and should prove engaging for a wide spectrum of readers. Its self-contained character sketches and short stories are fully capable of standing on their own, and the combination of vivid incidents and stunning prose will have readers sharing passages aloud. A must read for people who enjoy travel, memoir, ethnographic description, introspection, adventure, cultural analysis, and sly observation of everyday life in a variety of contemporary societies. The book begins by outlining a philosophy for undertaking the journey of life-what the author calls "peripatacity"-and then enumerates a set of rules for conducting the journey. Subsequent chapters focus on the processes, people, places, predicaments, and philosophies encountered along life's road. A final chapter personifies the journey by following the progress of the author, his wife and bi-cultural children on road trips through their native America and Japan-trips that prompt reflections on childhood, death, love, fate, God, happiness, family, home, place, personal growth, and the meaning of life.Altogether, Peripatetic Postcards operates at two levels. At its simplest it seeks to convey the panoply of human experience for those looking to broaden their understanding of the human condition in an increasingly globalized world; a world where travel is our contemporary lingua franca, one of our most extensive forms of mass experience. At a deeper level, it provides a model for how discovery can transpire, personified in the author's experience. Here is a book, above all, for those who seek to make sense of the contemporary collision and collaboration between the internal and external, and local and global worlds, and who seek to understand the deeper meanings of life through the interactions between self, place, people, and practice.

How long is Peripatetic Postcards?

Peripatetic Postcards by T. J. M. Holden is 440 pages long, and a total of 110,000 words.

This makes it 148% the length of the average book. It also has 134% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Peripatetic Postcards Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 1 minute to read Peripatetic Postcards aloud.

What Reading Level is Peripatetic Postcards?

Peripatetic Postcards 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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