The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth runs 6.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Natalie Goldberg (about 4.5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 6.8 hours, it runs longer than 77% of the 8,218 Mindfulness & Meditation audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg narrates 4 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 26 hours in all.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth is an audiobook by Natalie Goldberg: a 6.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Natalie Goldberg, released July 23, 2007, on the Mindfulness & Meditation and Self-Development shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Natalie Goldberg
- Released
- July 23, 2007
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mindfulness & Meditation, Self-Development
- ISBN
- 9781604071214
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth as an audiobook?
The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth runs 6.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.5 hours.
Is The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth?
The Great Failure: A Bartender, a Monk, & My Unlikely Path to Truth is narrated by Natalie Goldberg.