Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures is 6th and 7th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 6 |
SMOG Index | Grade 9 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 5 |
The estimated word count of The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures is 77,965 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 12 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 8 hrs 40 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 54 mins.
The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures - 77,965 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 8 hrs 40 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 12 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 54 mins |
for The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures
In a world of spycraft, betrayals, and reversals, a Stasi officer is unraveled by the cruel system he served and by the revelation of a decades-old secret, in this “story that John le Carré might have written for The Twilight Zone” (Washington Post). On November 9, 1989, Bernd Zeiger, a Stasi officer in the twilight of his career, is deteriorating from a mysterious illness. Alarmed by the disappearance of Lara, a young waitress at his regular café with whom he is obsessed, he chases a series of clues throughout Berlin. The details of Lara’s vanishing trigger flashbacks to his entanglement with Johannes Held, a physicist who, twenty-five years earlier, infiltrated an American research institute dedicated to weaponizing the paranormal. Now, on the day the Berlin Wall falls and Zeiger’s mind begins to crumble, his past transgressions have come back to haunt him. Who is the real Lara, what happened to her, and what is her connection to these events? As the surveiller becomes the surveilled, the mystery is both solved and deepened, with unexpected consequences. Set in the final, turbulent days of the Cold War, The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures blends the high-wire espionage of John le Carré with the brilliant absurdist humor of Milan Kundera to evoke the dehumanizing forces that turned neighbor against neighbor and friend against friend. Jennifer Hofmann’s debut is an affecting, layered investigation of conscience and country.