How long does it take to read Giles Goat-boy?
or, The revised new syllabus.
Giles Goat-boy by John Barth takes about 14 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 2 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1966. 765 pages, about 210,375 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
George, also known as Billy Bockfuss and as Giles, was raised as a goat rather than as a boy by a brilliant atomic physicist whose guilt about the bomb has driven him to the country. George sets out to become the messianic Grand Tutor of a university and to conquer the terrible Wescac computer system that threatens to destroy his community in this brilliant 'fantasy of theology, sociology, and sex.'
Subjects: College students, Fiction
