How long does it take to read Bad Habits?
Bad Habits by Terrence McNally takes about 1 hour 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 37 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1974. 88 pages, about 24,200 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the first play, DUNELAWN, we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence in such "bad habits" as smoking, drinking, and sexual promiscuity -- which seems to work wonders for his patients, whose wacky case histories are each examined in hilarious detail. In the second play, RAVENSWOOD, the approach is quite the opposite. Here the saintly Dr. Toynbee injects his straitjacketed charges with tranquilizing drugs to calm such urges -- but again the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subjected to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny.
