How long does it take to read Thy Neighbor's Wife?
Thy Neighbor's Wife by Gay Talese takes about 11 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1980. 609 pages, about 167,475 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When first published, Gay Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia—through the development of the porn industry, the rise of the "swinger" culture, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.
Subjects: Moral conditions, Sex (Psychology), Sex customs, Sexual ethics, United States, Erotica
