How long does it take to read Becoming Evil?
James Waller
Becoming Evil by James Waller takes about 5 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 316 pages, about 86,900 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Preface: "I Couldn't Do This to Someone"Part 1: What Are the Origins of Extraordinary Human Evil? Introduction: A Place Called Mauthausen1. The Nature of Extraordinary Human Evil"Nits Make Lice"2. Killers of Conviction: Groups, Ideology, and Extraordinary EvilDovey's Story3. The "Mad Nazi": Psychopathology, Personality, and Extraordinary EvilThe Massacre at Babi Yar4. The Dead End of DemonizationThe Invasion of DiliPart 2: Beyond Demonization: How Ordinary People Commit Extraordinary Evil A Model of Extraordinary Human Evil5. The Nature of Human Nature: Our Ancestral ShadowThe Tonle Sap Massacre6. Defining the Killers: Identities of the PerpetratorsDeath of a Guatemalan Village7. Immediate Social context: A Culture of CrueltyThe Church at Ntamara8. Defining the "Other": Social Death of the VictimsThe Safe Area of SrebrenicaPart 3: What Have We Learned and Why Does It Matter? 9. Conclusion: Can We Be Delivered from Extraordinary Evil?Genocide Warning: Sudan
Subjects: Nonfiction, Psychology, Genocide, Sozialpsychologie, Volkermord, Social psychology
