A Scanner Darkly — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 8.2 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 8.2 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 62% of the mystery audiobooks we measured.
- That's 10% shorter than the average mystery audiobook (9.1 hrs across 161 titles in our dataset).
Computed from mystery audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for mystery listeners who want proper detective work and a comic streak — a solid week of commutes at 8.2 hours (estimated).
About the book
Bob Arctor is a dealer of the lethally addictive drug Substance D. Fred is the police agent assigned to tail and eventually bust him. To do so, Fred takes on the identity of a drug dealer named Bob Arctor. And since Substance D--which Arctor takes in massive doses--gradually splits the user's brain into two distinct, combative entities, Fred doesn't realize he is narcing on himself. Caustically funny, eerily accurate in its depiction of junkies, scam artists, and the walking brain-dead, Philip K. Dick's industrial-grade stress test of identity is as unnerving as it is enthralling.
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How long is A Scanner Darkly as an audiobook?
A Scanner Darkly runs about 8.2 hours — our estimate from its 278 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.5 hours.
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When was A Scanner Darkly first published?
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick was first published in 1977.