How long does it take to read Behold the Man?
Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock takes about 2 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Karl Glogauer
Next: Breakfast in the Ruins
About 2 hours 38 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1968. 144 pages, about 39,600 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Karl Glogauer is a disaffected modern professional casting about for meaning in a series of half-hearted relationships, a dead-end job, and a personal struggle. His questions of faith surrounding his father's run-of-the-mill Christianity and his mother's suppressed Judaism lead him to a bizarre obsession with the idea of the messiah. After the collapse of his latest affair and his introduction to a reclusive physics professor, Karl is given the opportunity to confront his obsession and take a journey that no man has taken before, and from which he knows he cannot return. Upon arriving in Palestine, A.D. 29, Glogauer finds that Jesus Christ is not the man that history and faith would like to believe, but that there is an opportunity for someone to change the course of history by making the ultimate sacrifice.
Subjects: Christ, Jésus, Roman, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, English Science fiction
