How long does it take to read Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things?
what categories reveal about the mind
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff takes about 11 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 614 pages, about 168,850 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 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Focusing on studies of how humans categorize objects and ideas, this book examines the new understanding of human thought which proposes that human reason is imaginative, metaphorical, and intrinsically linked with the human body.
Subjects: Categorization (Psychology), Reason, Psycholinguistics, Cognition, Thought and thinking, Razón
