How long does it take to read You Can't Win?
Jack Black
You Can't Win by Jack Black takes about 7 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 13 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1926. 394 pages, about 108,350 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 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
William Burroughs, at the age of 13, was inspired by this book, as he mentions in a preface to Naked Lunch. You Can't Win is a memoir that explodes our ideas about the supposedly lawful past; Jack was a drifter, robber, junkie, and hustler that survived from the frontier times til the depression era...apparently. He became a librarian of sorts, wrote his memoir, and then vanished...
Subjects: Biography, Criminals, junkie, memoir, naked lunch, underground history
