How long does it take to read Vacationland?
Vacationland by John Hodgman takes about 4 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 257 pages, about 70,675 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn’t seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now. Disarmed of falsehood, he was left only with the awful truth: John Hodgman is an older white male monster with bad facial hair, wandering like a privileged Sasquatch through three wildernesses: the hills of Western Massachusetts where he spent much of his youth; the painful beaches of Maine that want to kill him (and some day will); and the metaphoric haunted forest of middle age that connects them. Vacationland collects these real life wanderings, and through them you learn of the horror of freshwater clams, the evolutionary purpose of the mustache, and which animals to keep as pets and which to kill with traps and poison. There is also some advice on how to react when the people of coastal Maine try to sacrifice you to their strange god. Though wildly, Hodgmaniacally funny as usual, it is also a poignant and sincere account of one human facing his forties, those years when men in particular must stop pretending to be the children of bright potential they were and settle into the failing bodies of the wiser, weird dads that they are.
Subjects: Personal Memoirs, television personalities, biography, American humorists, humor, Authors, biography
