How long does it take to read Fates Worse Than Death?
An Autobiographical Collage
Fates Worse Than Death by Kurt Vonnegut takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Biography, American Novelists, Moral and ethical aspects, Nuclear warfare, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Nuclear warfare
