How long does it take to read Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One?
David Sedaris, Gary Carpenter
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One by David Sedaris, Gary Carpenter takes about 9 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 33 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2017. 521 pages, about 143,275 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunning, surprising sentences. Now, Sedaris shares his private writings with the world. Theft by Finding, the first of two volumes, is the story of how a drug-abusing dropout with a weakness for the International House of Pancakes and a chronic inability to hold down a real job became one of the funniest people on the planet. Written with a sharp eye and ear for the bizarre, the beautiful, and the uncomfortable, and with a generosity of spirit that even a misanthropic sense of humor can't fully disguise, Theft By Finding proves that Sedaris is one of our great modern observers. It's a potent reminder that when you're as perceptive and curious as Sedaris, there's no such thing as a boring day.
Subjects: Gay men, biography, Humorists, Humor, form, essays, American Humorists, Biography, Diaries
