How long does it take to read The Book of Laughter and Forgetting?
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera takes about 5 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 39 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1979. 308 pages, about 84,700 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Czech fiction, Fiction, Social conditions, Czechs, English fiction, Black humor
