How long does it take to read What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire?
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski takes about 7 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 409 pages, about 112,475 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
Subjects: Drama, Fiction, American poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
