How long does it take to read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again?
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace takes about 6 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 353 pages, about 97,075 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories -- which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere -- explore intensely immediate states of mind, with the attention to voice and the extraordinary creative daring that have won Wallace his reputation as one of the most talented fiction writer of his generation.Among the stories are "The Depressed Person", a dazzling portrayal of a woman's mental state; "Adult World", which reveals a woman's agonized consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband; and "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men", a dark, hilarious series of portraits of men whose fear of women renders them grotesque.
Subjects: Fiction, Humor (Nonfiction), Wit and humor, American Wit and humor, Essays, American wit and humor, travel
