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How long does it take to read Knees Up Mother Earth?

Robert Rankin

Knees Up Mother Earth by Robert Rankin takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 7 of The Brentford Trilogy

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About 7 hours 2 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2005. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.

15 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 44 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 2 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 24 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"There's big trouble in Little Brentford. Property developers are planning to destroy Griffin Park, the borough's beloved football ground, and build executive homes on the site. Horror! Shock! Outrage! Something must be done." "The lads of The Flying Swan, Brentford's most celebrated drinking house, take up the challenge. Norman, keeper of the cornershop, has some ideas. He's recently discovered a Victorian computer which holds the long-lost secrets of the secret super-technology of a bygone age. And Archroy, Brentford's lone yachtsman and explorer, has just returned from his seventh voyage, bringing with him the fabled Golden Fleece." "Then there's Jim Pooley and John Omally, unemployed bachelors of this parish. And an aged, learned professor. And that Victorian time traveller who's recently materialised in Norman's kitchen." "Surely with all these stalwarts working for the cause, Brentford's football ground is as good as saved." "But this is Brentford, and ancient forces of evil - Old Testament terrors, Lovecraftian loathsomes and beasties from the bottomless pit, that sort of evil - are stirring. If the team make it through to the final, it's going to be a match that no one will forget." "What with the fate of mankind hanging upon the result and everything."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects: Soccer stories, Monsters, Time travel, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general

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