It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read The Mad Cook of Pymatuning by Christopher Lehmann-haupt
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In this chilling novel about a 1950s boys' summer camp gone awry, the former New York Times literary critic has created a brilliant coming-of-age story with undertones reminiscent of Lord of the Flies. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's novel is at once a fantasy, a barbed portrait of boyhood in the dawning of the Eisenhower era, and a no-holds-barred story of terror of the sort that won him praise for his previous novel, A Crooked Man. Jerry Muller has been a regular at Camp Seneca for years. Now that he's a teenager and counselor, things don't seem quite right at his traditional summer haunt. As...
The Mad Cook of Pymatuning by Christopher Lehmann-haupt is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read The Mad Cook of Pymatuning aloud.
The Mad Cook of Pymatuning is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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