How long does it take to read Dhalgren?
Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany takes about 16 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 7 minutes
A long haul
First published 1975. 879 pages, about 241,725 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. But others are drawn to the devastated city, among them the Kid, a white/American Indian man who can't remember his own name. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized.
Subjects: City and town life, Fiction, American Science fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, City and town life -- Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
