How long does it take to read The Pleasures of the Damned?
Poems, 1951-1993
The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski takes about 10 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 576 pages, about 158,400 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
To his legions of fans, Charles Bukowski was- - and remains- - a counterculture icon. A hard- drinking wild man of literature, a stubborn outsider to the poetry world, he struck a chord with generations of readers, writing raw, tough poetry about booze, work, and women, that spoke to his fans as "real" and, like the work of the Beats, even dangerous. THE PLEASURES OF THE DAMNED is a selection of the best works of Bukowski's later years, edited by John Martin of Black Sparrow Press, including the last of his new, never- before- published poems.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), American poetry
