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Native Tongue II

Suzette Haden Elgin, Amy Landon, Rebecca Romney

The Judas Rose by Suzette Haden Elgin, Amy Landon, Rebecca Romney takes about 6 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Native Tongue Trilogy

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About 6 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1987. 372 pages, about 102,300 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 22 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 16 minutes

The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Laadan --battle cry of revolution or a tool to unite human and alien? IN LANGUAGE LIES POWER! And on a future Earth where genetically bred linguists hold the key to the planet's economic survival because only they can serve as translators between human and alien traders, language has, indeed, become the way to power. but what this future earth's male-dominated society does not yet realize is that ordinary women as well as linguists can wield this weapon of the mind.

Subjects: Fiction, Women linguists, American Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Secret Languages, Women

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