How long does it take to read Eyes of the Tailless Animals?
Soon Ok Lee
Eyes of the Tailless Animals by Soon Ok Lee takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1999. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The author refused to violate rules to benefit her superior, and was thrown into a labor camp so horrible that she is the only known survivor. Almost all prisoners were worked to death, but she had one of the few jobs that were barely survivable. I've read a number of books by communist labor camp survivors, but this describes the harshest conditions outside of Nazi death camps. Initially an atheist, she was so impressed by the behavior of a few Christian prisoners that she became one later. If you want to know how bad things really are in North Korea, this will show you.
Subjects: Labor Camp, North Korea, Communism, Christianity, Women prisoners, Communism and Christianity
