How long does it take to read Christiaan Barnard?
Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard by Christiaan Barnard takes about 8 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 36 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1969. 469 pages, about 128,975 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book is the autobiography of the famed South African heart-transplanter. The novelistic (conversations recreated years after they took place), breathless prose disqualifies much of Barnard's story as good medical history, but its inherent drama will hold even the critical reader. - Annals of Internal Medicine.
Subjects: Heart, Transplantation, History of Medicine, Biography
