How long does it take to read Uncommon Law?
being sixty-six misleading cases revised and collected in one volume, including ten cases not published before
A. P. Herbert
Uncommon Law by A. P. Herbert takes about 9 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 3 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1935. 494 pages, about 135,850 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A beautiful humorous book about law and sometimes the absurdity thereof. AP Herbert designs ridiculous cases such as is there a thing such as a reasonable woman (the reasonable man test for negligence) and is this country really free (fun is not described in law and as such the law takes a dim view of it) and then follows this case through an ostensible normal law report or court minutes to a hilarious conclusion. If you have some knowledge of the law and a sense of humor it is 5/5, if not it will be a 0/5.
Subjects: Anecdotes, Humor, Law, Miscellanea, Trials, Droit
