How long does it take to read Easy Riders, Raging Bulls?
Peter Biskind
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind takes about 9 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 506 pages, about 139,150 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and how, along the way, some of its executives helped smuggle Huey Newton out of the country; how director Hal Ashby was busted for drugs and thrown in jail in Toronto; why Martin Scorsese attended the Academy Awards with an FBI escort when Taxi Driver was nominated; how George Lucas, gripped by anxiety, compulsively cut off his own hair while writing Star Wars; how a modest house on Nicholas Beach occupied by actresses Margot Kidder and Jennifer Salt became the unofficial headquarters for the New Hollywood; how Billy Friedkin tried to humiliate Paramount boss Barry Diller; and how screenwriter/director Paul Schrader played Russian roulette in his hot tub. It was a time when an "anything goes" experimentation prevailed both on the screen and off."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Motion pictures, Motion picture producers and directors, Biography, History, Motion pictures, history, Motion picture industry
