How Long to Read The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories

How Long Does it Take to Read The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories?

It takes the average reader to read The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories by William Browning Spencer

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Description

Another decade has elapsed, and William Browning Spencer has produced another superlative collection of short stories that commingle horror and humor. A number of these tales are cautionary ones. After reading "The Tenth Muse," you might not wish to interview a reclusive writer who wrote one wildly popular novel and has been silent for decades, even if your father was his closest friend. You might not wish to become a writer at all. "The Indelible Dark" portrays one lost in a dystopian novel he is writing, coming to the slow and unsettling discovery that he carries his own darkness into the mundane world. These monsters aren't metaphors. Alcoholism might be the monster in "Penguins of the Apocalypse," but the disease has its own familiar, a creature born in folklore, nothing as warm as that oversized rabbit that Jimmy Stewart talked to in "Harvey." And it's got your son. "Stone and the Librarian" isn't a monster story. It is the story of an unhappy young man who is trying to find his place in a Robert E. Howard world of swords and sorcery but is constantly dragged back to the effete world of his pale and sickly classmates. They read a book by some famous guy, a book called The Catcher in the Rye, in which a kid named Holden keeps going on about how phony everything is. Stone's book report begins, "If I met Holden Caulfield in an alley, I would kill him with a rock." In "The Unorthodox Dr. Draper," a psychologist has abandoned the strict rigor of his professional life for something more improvisational with a client who tells him, "I know when they follow me. I am like a mouse that knows the shadow of the owl because the mouse must be quick or she is dead." If this is your first encounter with Mr. Spencer's stories, it is a good introduction. If you have read other books by him, The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and other stories is essential.

How long is The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories?

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How Long Does it Take to Read The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories aloud.

What Reading Level is The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories?

The Unorthodox Dr. Draper and Other Stories is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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