How long does it take to read Heretics of Dune?
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert takes about 9 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Dune
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About 9 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1984. 536 pages, about 147,400 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 48 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
With more than ten million copies sold, Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune books stand among the major achievements of the human imagination. In this, the fifth and most spectacular Dune book of all, the planet Arrakis--now called Rakis--is becoming desert again. The Lost Ones are returning home from the far reaches of space. The great sandworms are dying. And the children of Dune's children awaken from empire as from a dream, wielding the new power of a heresy called love...
Subjects: Science Fiction, Fiction, Dune (Imaginary place), Anglais (langue), Roman américain, Science-fiction américaine