How long does it take to read I Thought My Father Was God?
And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
Paul Auster, VV. AA.
I Thought My Father Was God by Paul Auster, VV. AA. takes about 8 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2001. 460 pages, about 126,500 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 36 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1999, Paul Auster and National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered programme asked listeners to send in true stories, to be read on-air as part of the National Story Project. The response was overwhelming : everyone, it seemed, had a story to tell. True Tales of American Life gathers 180 of these stories in one extraordinary volume.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Anecdotes, Social conditions, Oral history, Biography, United states, social life and customs
