No One Is Talking About This
Patricia Lockwood ยท 2021
How long does it take to read No One Is Talking About This?
About 4 hours 29 minutes
224 pages at 50 pages an hour. 9 days at 30 minutes a day. Work out your own time.
"From "a formidably gifted writer" (The New York Times Book Review), a book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the portal," where she grapples with an unshakable conviction that a vast chorus of voices is now dictating her thoughts. When existential threats--from climate change and economic precariousness to the rise of an unnamed dictator and an epidemic of loneliness--begin to loom, she posts her way deeper into the portal's void. An avalanche of images, details, and references accumulate to form a landscape that is post-sense, post-irony, post-everything. "Are we in hell?" the people of the portal ask themselves. "Are we all just going to keep doing this until we die?" Suddenly, two texts from her mother pierce the fray: "Something has gone wrong," and "How soon can you get here?" As real life and its stakes collide with the increasingly absurd antics of the portal, the woman confronts a world that seems to contain both an abundance of proof that there is goodness, empathy, and justice in the universe, and a deluge of evidence to the contrary"--
How long does it take to read No One Is Talking About This?
No One Is Talking About This is 224 pages, so it takes about 4 hours 29 minutes to read at an average pace of 50 pages an hour. A relaxed reader at 35 pages an hour needs about 6 hours 24 minutes; a fast reader at 70 pages an hour, about 3 hours 12 minutes.
How many days to read No One Is Talking About This at 20 minutes a day?
About 14 days, reading 20 minutes a day at 50 pages an hour.
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