How long does it take to read Big Sur?
Jack Kerouac, Tom Parker
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac, Tom Parker takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Duluoz Legend
Next: Desolation Angels
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1962. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 50 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Big Sur is a novel written by Jack Kerouac, that was published in 1962. The books perspective is told from Kerouac's alter ego Jack Dulouz. The novel describes Kerouac's frustration that he has with his fame of being a writer, and how he goes to his friends cabin on Big Sur to get away from the madness of every day existence. The novel also describes Kerouac's mental state of being, and his struggles with alcohol. Big Sur is a book for any man, women, and possibly animal who has an unhealthy obsession with the beat generation.
Subjects: Alcoholic psychoses, Beat generation, Fiction, Beats (Persons), Psicosis alcohólicas, Ficción
