It takes the average reader 7 hours and 55 minutes to read The Psychedelic Slacker by Alan Mark Train
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The silhouettes are trying to put together an image of the world they live in; they are writers, journalists, reporters (but also mercenaries, even spies if necessary) and what they find is not too encouraging to them. To them only? Well, we get to see them after their last moral objections are water under the bridge and the process of "fitting in" is under way Their "project" is smuggling people and narcotics from South America into the States using an old plane they're rebuilding for that purpose. We get to watch how the venture takes off the ground, how they get rich Is that, though, what the book is all about? The above sketch is a pretext rather, a canvas to reflect, to go deeper than just skin deep, about and into our world. Who are we? Not the people in the book, but WE, the readers (as well as non-readers). Who are the people representing us we call politicians. What is the whole system not just of one single country but of that strange conglomerate we call "modern world". And what is art? How does a human being, any human being endowed with the ability to reflect and to express his pain, do just that express it ? The author takes us here on a literary journey as well. We'll find, smiling, echoes, not too numerous though, from John Dos Passos, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot and others, certainly not only as author's homage to them, but most of all as his statement that they live although physically dead for so many years that there wasn't just one lost generation "
The Psychedelic Slacker by Alan Mark Train is 472 pages long, and a total of 118,944 words.
This makes it 159% the length of the average book. It also has 145% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 49 minutes to read The Psychedelic Slacker aloud.
The Psychedelic Slacker 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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