How long does it take to read The Soft Machine?
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs takes about 3 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Nova Trilogy
Next: The Ticket That Exploded
About 3 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1961. 182 pages, about 50,050 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo. Continuing his ferocious verbal assault on hatred, hype, poverty, war, bureaucracy, and addiction in all its forms, Burroughs gives us a surreal space odyssey through the wounded galaxies in a book only he could create.
Subjects: Fiction, Gay men, Gay men -- Fiction, Homosexuals masculine, Roman, Science fiction
