About This Book
"Sheer pleasure. . . . Wonderfully entertaining."--Chicago Sun-Times Acclaimed by Norman Mailer more than twenty years ago as "possibly the only American writer of genius," William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. In these scintillating essays, he writes wittily and wisel...
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Reading Time Estimates
6h 59m
slow reader
180 WPM
5h 1m
average reader
250 WPM
3h 35m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 75,350 words📅 11 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
5 h 1 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
5 h 35 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
8 h 22 min
Audio 2x
4 h 11 min
That's about:
- 📅11 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇11 commutes of 30 min each