How long does it take to read The Lord Won't Mind?
The Lord Won't Mind by Gordon Merrick takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1970. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At last, contemporary readers have the chance to discover a notorious and incomparably entertaining classic of gay fiction. When Gordon Merrick’s bold tale of men in love first appeared in print, the uproar from readers who’d never seen a gay love story so nakedly and unapologetically told was deafening. Today a whole new generation can discover a delicious secret of gay history: an irresistible, compulsively readable tale of gay romance. Eat your heart out, Judith Krantz.
Subjects: Fiction, gay, Fiction, general, Gay men, Fiction, Same-sex marriage, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay
