How long does it take to read How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read?
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2007. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a book that will challenge everyone who's ever felt guilty about missing some of the 'great books' to consider what reading means, how we absorb books as part of ourselves, and how and why we spend so much time talking about what we have, or haven't, read.
Subjects: History and criticism, Littérature, Histoire et critique, Books and reading, Theory, Literature, history and criticism
