How long does it take to read Hearts in Atlantis?
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King takes about 10 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 58 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1998. 598 pages, about 164,450 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are about the Baby Boomer Generation, specifically King's view that this generation (to which he belongs) failed to live up to its promise and ideals. Significantly, the opening epigraph of the collection is the Peter Fonda line from the end of Easy Rider: "We blew it." All of the stories are about the 1960s and the war in Vietnam, and in all of them the members of that generation fail profoundly, or are paying the costs of some profound failure on their part. In this collection: - Blind Willie - Hearts in Atlantis - Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling - Low Men in Yellow Coats - Why We're in Vietnam
Subjects: Lord of the Flies (William Golding), somatoform disorders, penance, dormitories, Hearts, The Dark Tower
