It takes the average reader 1 hour and 20 minutes to read The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
New poetry by the acclaimed writer Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City and The Ticking Is the Bomb electrocution, no—the boy stood in the hot-hot room stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering I did stammering everything you say I did I did. —from "Fire" The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is Nick Flynn's first new poetry collection in nearly a decade. What begins as a meditation on love and the body soon breaks down into a collage of voices culled from media reports, childhood memories, testimonies from Abu Ghraib detainees, passages from...
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands by Nick Flynn is 80 pages long, and a total of 20,000 words.
This makes it 27% the length of the average book. It also has 24% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 49 minutes to read The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands aloud.
The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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