How long does it take to read And the Band Played on?
Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts takes about 12 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 656 pages, about 180,400 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The blueprint of 20th century investigative journalism. Tracing the course of HIV/AIDS through society; from its earliest as then unknown incarnation, to the height of this 1980s hysteria – the death of Rock Hudson: Shilts's book should be in every High School's final academic examinations coursework reading list, as a compulsory item. An unregrettable read.
Subjects: AIDS (Disease), History, Political aspects of AIDS (Disease), Social aspects, Social aspects of AIDS (Disease), Aspectos sociales
