Gravity's Rainbow: Audiobook
The Gravity's Rainbow audiobook runs an estimated 24 hours (about 16 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 24 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 48 days |
| 1 hour / day | 24 days |
| 2 hours / day | 12 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 16 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 24 hours (estimated), it runs longer than 99% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 129% longer than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).
Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for science fiction listeners: a long-haul epic at 24 hours (estimated).
About the book
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Start the free trialQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Gravity's Rainbow audiobook?
Gravity's Rainbow runs about 24 hours, our estimate from its 810 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 16 hours.
Can I listen to Gravity's Rainbow free?
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Is Gravity's Rainbow worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 16 hours, saving 8 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Gravity's Rainbow first published?
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon was first published in 1973.
