How long does it take to read Mostly Harmless?
Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams takes about 4 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Previous: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Next: And Another Thing...
About 4 hours 45 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 259 pages, about 71,225 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 45 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 53 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet.
Subjects: Ford Prefect (Fictitious character), Arthur Dent (Fictitious character), Interplanetary voyages, Fiction, Humorous stories, Fantasy
More by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4.0 h 
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe 4.1 h 
Life, the Universe and Everything 3.9 h 
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Universe and Everything / So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Mostly Harmless / Young Zaphod Plays it Safe) 15.0 h 
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency 5.1 h 
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish 3.7 h 
