How long does it take to read Double Star?
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1956. 171 pages, about 47,025 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 42 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was — as usual — in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. Suddenly he found himself agreeing to the most difficult role of his career: impersonating an important politician who had been kidnapped. Peace with the Martians was at stake — failure to pull off the act could result in interplanetary war. And Smythe's own life was on the line — for if he wasn't assassinated, there was always the possibility that he might be trapped in his new role forever!
Subjects: Hugo Award Winner, American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Children's fiction, Science fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization
