It takes the average reader 7 hours and 5 minutes to read The Life of Lou Reed by Howard Sounes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Fifty years after the concerts captured on the legendary album 1969: The Velvet Underground Live comes this illuminating biography of Lou Reed. As band leader of the Velvet Underground and later a successful solo artist, Reed was much more than what the general public came to know as the grumpy New Yorker in black who sang “Walk on the Wild Side.” To his dedicated admirers, he was one of the most innovative and intelligent songwriters of modern times—a natural outsider who lived a tumultuous and tortured life. In the course of his deep research into Reed’s life, from a humble upbringing on...
The Life of Lou Reed by Howard Sounes is 416 pages long, and a total of 106,496 words.
This makes it 140% the length of the average book. It also has 130% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 41 minutes to read The Life of Lou Reed aloud.
The Life of Lou Reed is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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