How long does it take to read The Missionary Position?
The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens takes about 1 hour 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 48 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 98 pages, about 26,950 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world's media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what, asks Christopher Hitchens, makes Mother Teresa so divine? In a frank expose of the Teresa cult, Hitchens details the nature and limits of one woman's mission to the world's poor. He probes the source of the heroic status bestowed upon an Albanian nun whose only declared wish is to serve God. He asks whether Mother Teresa's good works answer any higher purpose than the need of the world's privileged to see someone, somewhere, doing something for the Third World. He unmasks pseudo-miracles, questions Mother Teresa's fitness to adjudicate on matters of sex and reproduction, and reports on a version of saintly ubiquity which affords genial relations with dictators, corrupt tycoons and convicted frauds.
Subjects: Missionaries of Charity, Nuns, Biography, Missie, Nonnen, Beeldvorming
