How long does it take to read The Conspiracy Against the Human Race?
A Contrivance of Horror
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti takes about 4 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 260 pages, about 71,500 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 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Thomas Ligotti, an American author usually associated with horror fiction, turns to philosophy in this 2010 non-fiction work, a set of essays on pessimism, nihilism and antinatalism. He starts from the assumption that being alive is not all right and that suffering outweighs pleasure. Consciousness, he argues, is a tragedy, because awareness of a meaningless, horrifying world makes people try to avoid knowing it. He claims that much of human culture, from health pursuits to art and parenthood, springs from this evasion, and that only ego death or human extinction offers full escape.
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Subjects: Philosophy, Pessimism, Horror, Literature, philosophy
