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Mostly Harmless: Audiobook

The Mostly Harmless audiobook runs an estimated 7.7 hours (about 5.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.7est. listening hrs
4.1★76 ratings
Fantasygenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 7.7 hours of listening (estimated).

Days to finish Mostly Harmless at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

What our data says

  • At 7.7 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 71% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 30% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook (11 hrs across 1861 titles in our dataset).

Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for fantasy listeners who want a comic streak: a weekend-size listen at 7.7 hours (estimated).

About the book

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose. Hell takes a number of forms: there’s the standard Ford Prefect version, in the shape of an all-new edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy , and a totally unexpected manifestation in the form of a teenage girl who startles Arthur Dent by being his daughter when he didn’t even know he had one. Can Arthur save the Earth from total multidimensional obliteration? Can he save the Guide from a hostile alien takeover?

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Mostly Harmless audiobook?

Mostly Harmless runs about 7.7 hours, our estimate from its 259 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.1 hours.

Is the Mostly Harmless audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

When was Mostly Harmless first published?

Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams was first published in 1991.