It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Waiting for the End of the World by Madison Smartt Bell
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
An “exhilirating” novel of domestic terrorism in the gritty streets of 1980s New York from the National Book Award–finalist and author of Straight Cut (The New Yorker). As a staff photographer at Bellevue hospital in Manhattan, Clarence Dmitri Larkin is exposed to the fraying underbelly of New York City. Drawn in by the stories of the sick, the lost, and the insane, Larkin’s own dark impulses lead him through the streets of Brooklyn’s shadowy warehouse district. Increasingly isolated from the world around him, Larkin falls in with a disturbed cell of outcasts. Their ringleader, empowered by...
Waiting for the End of the World by Madison Smartt Bell is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.
This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read Waiting for the End of the World aloud.
Waiting for the End of the World 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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