How long does it take to read Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me?
Richard Fariña
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Fariña takes about 6 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1966. 329 pages, about 90,475 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 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Based largely on Farinã's college experiences and travels, the novel is a comic picaresque story of Gnossos Pappadopoulis that takes place in the American West, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and at an upstate New York university.
Subjects: College students, Fiction, College students -- Fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Conduct of life, Social life and customs
