How Long to Read The Land of Matta

How Long Does it Take to Read The Land of Matta?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 9 minutes to read The Land of Matta by Michael Eldred

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

Description

A fantasy in the sense of Alice in Wonderland, but not for children.It's cock-and-bull like Tristram Shandy, but without the digressions.It's satire in the tradition of Gulliver's Travels, but the satire is on modern science.The humour is British, like the Goons or Monty Python.The protagonists are two young students, Phi and Psi, finding their way in life. In Book I, In Quest of Mu, they go in search, in search of the ancient Mu, a philosophical refugee from Athens to Upper Matta.Mu himself is on a philosophical quest to answer his guiding question, Why is there movement at all, rather than standstill?In Book II, The Way Back to Anaxaton, the main character turns out to be the mysterious Willy P., the power behind the scenes.Matta stands for 'mathematics', but there are no formulae, only a more or less playful, historical treatment of maths along with a couple of Greek symbols.The quantum mechanics is accurate, but blown up to fantastic proportions with fun-loving, unbridled literary licence. This makes it look superficially like sci-fi, but it's subtler.The philosophical strand is substantial, but presented narratively and playfully camouflaged. The presentation is tongue-in-cheek, so the reader constantly has to decide at each point whether it's serious sense or straight-faced nonsense. Usually it's both. It has some quasi-Platonic dialogue, and the whole is borne by philosophical questions subversively at work in the background. Its companion philosophical volume is A Question of Time: An Alternative Cast of Mind (2015).

How long is The Land of Matta?

The Land of Matta by Michael Eldred is 358 pages long, and a total of 92,364 words.

This makes it 121% the length of the average book. It also has 113% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Land of Matta Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 24 minutes to read The Land of Matta aloud.

What Reading Level is The Land of Matta?

The Land of Matta 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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