It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Guards by Ken Bruen
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
'Edgy, pitch-black humour... With few, if any, antecedents The Guards is one of the curiously rare Irish crime novels' - Guardian 'It's a fine piece of work, a ripping read; set in Galway, funny and sad and tough... I will henceforth be first in the queue for anything he writes' - Gene Kerrigan, Sunday Independent 'An elegiac novel of despair and redemption... Bleak, amoral and disturbing' - Irish Independent 'A blistering tale of revenge and retribution that comes off the page like a shot off a shovel... Not one for the faint of heart' - The Irish Times
The Guards by Ken Bruen is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.
This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Guards aloud.
The Guards is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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