How long does it take to read The Star Beast?
The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 3 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Heinlein juveniles
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About 3 hours 46 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 205 pages, about 56,375 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 26 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lummox had been the Stuart family pet for years. Though far from cuddly and rather large, it had always been obedient and docile. Except, that is, for the time it had eaten the secondhand Buick . . . But now, all of a sudden and without explanation, Lummox had begun chomping down on a variety of things — not least, a very mean dog and a cage of virtually indestructible steel. Incredible! John Thomas and Lummox were soon in awfully hot water, and they didn't know how to get out. And neither one really understood just how bad things were — or how bad the situation could get — until some space voyagers appeared and turned a far-from-ordinary family problem into an extraordinary confrontation.
Subjects: Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, space opera, Life on other planets, Fiction, American Science fiction, Extraterrestrial beings
