How long does it take to read PiHKAL?
A Chemical Love Story
Alexander T. Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Juan Carlos Ruiz Franco
PiHKAL by Alexander T. Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Juan Carlos Ruiz Franco takes about 18 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 18 hours 13 minutes
A long haul
First published 1991. 994 pages, about 273,350 words.
37 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 30 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 18 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
By Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin. Tells the tale of a psychopharmacologist and his wife/research partner, and recounts decades devoted to the creation and investigation of psychedelic drugs as tools for the study of the human mind. Altered state experiences are explored in the context of intimacy.
Subjects: Fiction, Phenethylamines, Hallucinogenic drugs, Psychedelics, Biography, Science
