How Long to Read The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men

How Long Does it Take to Read The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 51 minutes to read The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men by Randy F. Nelson

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

Description

The mechanical men in these stories—Industrial Age holdovers, outsiders wanting for relevance and respect, or overwhelmed people who confuse the certainties of one reality with the doubts of another—are cut off in some way from contemporary culture. Sometimes in these stories, which Randy F. Nelson calls "thought experiments about values in conflict," the characters are like the Native American prison guard in "Escape": Rifkin thinks that atonement is possible even for fugitive killers. Others are less sanguine. In "Breakers," a corporate hitman arrives on a forgettable island off the African coast. His mission: to shut down a hellish, polluting, ship-demolition business. His nemesis: a lawyer, now gone Heart-of-Darkness crazy, who preceded him years earlier for the same purpose. The bottom drops out in other stories, rearranging all reference points to good and bad, true and false. In "Abduction," for instance, a distraught young woman summons a tabloid reporter to a grubby hotel room, where the now-lifeless alien who had invaded her body lies wrapped in a sheet. Nelson once explained his motivations by alluding to a line in a Gabriel García Márquez story. A crowd of villagers are gazing upon a man, "but even though they were looking at him, there was no room for him in their imagination." "Stories and characters and situations that ask the imagination to accommodate something bigger, further, deeper—that's what I'm after," said Nelson.

How long is The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men?

The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men by Randy F. Nelson is 226 pages long, and a total of 57,856 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 16 minutes to read The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men aloud.

What Reading Level is The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men?

The Imaginary Lives of Mechanical Men 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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