How long does it take to read Rip It Up and Start Again?
Rip It Up and Start Again by Simon Reynolds takes about 12 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 665 pages, about 182,875 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Rip It Up and Start Again is the first book-length exploration of the wildly adventurous music created in the years after punk. Renowned music journalist Simon Reynolds celebrates the futurist spirit of such bands as Joy Division, Gang of Four, Talking Heads, and Devo, which resulted in endless innovations in music, lyrics, performance, and style and continued into the early eighties with the video-savvy synth- pop of groups such as Human League, Depeche Mode, and Soft Cell, whose success coincided with the rise of MTV. Full of insight and anecdote and populated by charismatic characters, Rip It Up re-creates the idealism, urgency, and excitement of one of the most important and challenging periods in the history of popular music.
Subjects: Punk rock music, Alternative rock music, Music, Nonfiction
