How long does it take to read Breakfast with Buddha?
A Novel
Roland Merullo
Breakfast with Buddha by Roland Merullo takes about 5 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 323 pages, about 88,825 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 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When his sister tricks him into taking her guru on a trip to their childhood home, Otto Ringling, a confirmed skeptic, is not amused. Six days on the road with an enigmatic holy man who answers every question with a riddle is not what he'd planned. But in an effort to westernize his passenger—and amuse himself—he decides to show the monk some "American fun" along the way. From a chocolate factory in Hershey to a bowling alley in South Bend, from a Cubs game at Wrigley field to his family farm near Bismarck, Otto is given the remarkable opportunity to see his world—and more important, his life—through someone else's eyes. Gradually, skepticism yields to amazement as he realizes that his companion might just be the real thing.In Roland Merullo's masterful hands, Otto tells his story with all the wonder, bemusement, and wry humor of a man who unwittingly finds what he's missing in the most unexpected place.
Subjects: Fiction, Inheritance and succession, Self-actualization (Psychology), Buddhists, Fiction, religious, North dakota, fiction
