How long does it take to read To Sail Beyond the Sunset?
To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A. Heinlein takes about 8 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 8 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 446 pages, about 122,650 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 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
SciFi - Subtitled "The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)". Maureen Johnson is the mother of Woodrow Wilson Smith/Lazarus Long/Theodore Bronson. This memoir takes sexually active Maureen from her childhood in the 1880s to her rescue 100 years later and on to her rejuvenation and activity as a time traveler.
Subjects: Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction
