How long does it take to read Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out?
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt takes about 10 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 7 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 552 pages, about 151,800 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.
Subjects: Reincarnation, Land tenure, Landowners, Fiction, History, Fantasy fiction
