How Long to Read The Bardo of Waking Life

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bardo of Waking Life?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 19 minutes to read The Bardo of Waking Life by Richard Grossinger

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

Description

An avant garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger’s The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more "mundane issues" including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music. Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.

How long is The Bardo of Waking Life?

The Bardo of Waking Life by Richard Grossinger is 553 pages long, and a total of 139,909 words.

This makes it 187% the length of the average book. It also has 171% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Bardo of Waking Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 44 minutes to read The Bardo of Waking Life aloud.

What Reading Level is The Bardo of Waking Life?

The Bardo of Waking Life 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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