How Long to Read Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities

How Long Does it Take to Read Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 52 minutes to read Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities by Edward Farley

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

Description

This memoir records the story of the author's personal journey toward a life of university teaching and probes that story in reflective essays on a variety of subjects. One group of essays has to do with the characteristic activities and institutional setting of a professor. Other essays explore ways of experiencing the world as mysterious, beautiful, and tragic. One piece offers a rather somber account of current ways in which the American experiment in democracy is in peril. Scraps of what looks like an intellectual autobiography are scattered over the pages of the narrative, recalling the puzzles that gave rise to a number of writing projects. In a way this is a book of paradoxes and antitheses. Janus-like, it faces toward the past and the future. It offers generalized convictions and specific observations, treats both the ordinary themes of life experience and tangled esoterica, and presents both the experiences of an individual and an analysis of educational institutions. As a whole, the book invites readers to join the author in "thinking about things."

How long is Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities?

Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities by Edward Farley is 286 pages long, and a total of 73,216 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 89% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 40 minutes to read Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities aloud.

What Reading Level is Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities?

Thinking about Things and Other Frivolities 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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