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How long does it take to read The Winds of Dune?

Brian Herbert

The Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert takes about 8 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of Heroes of Dune

Previous: Paul of Dune

About 8 hours 13 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2009. 448 pages, about 123,200 words.

17 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 13 hours 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 13 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 8 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Between the end of Frank Herbert's DUNE and his next novel, DUNE MESSIAH, lies an intriguing mystery: how a hero adored by a planet became a tyrant hated by a universe. Paul Atreides is the man who overthrew a corrupt empire and then launched a terrible jihad across the galaxy, shedding the blood of trillions. The now-hated tyrant, the blind emperor Paul Muad'Dib, has walked off into the endless desert of the planet Arrakis, known as Dune, leaving his turbulent empire without guidance. It's up to his mother Jessica, with her daughter Alia, the brave troubadour-warrior Gurney Halleck, the resurrected Duncan Idaho, the Fremen leader Stilgar, as well as Paul's wife-in-name and biographer, Princess Irulan, to try and hold an empire together even as it tears itself apart from within and without.

Subjects: Dune (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Dune (imaginary place), fiction

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