How long does it take to read The Guns of the South?
a novel of the Civil War
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove takes about 10 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 561 pages, about 154,275 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
January 1864--General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equpped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK-47....
Subjects: Alternative histories, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Fiction, historical, Fiction, westerns
