The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead runs 7.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Peter Marinker (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 7.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 15 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.1 hours, it is shorter than 61% of the 10,266 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Peter Marinker
Peter Marinker narrates 28 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 200 hours in all.
About as long, on the Memoirs shelf
2,082 Memoirs audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2008 recording read by Don Leslie runs 0.4 hours shorter (6.7 hours).
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 Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead is an audiobook by David Shields: a 7.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Peter Marinker, released April 7, 2011, on the Memoirs and Social Science shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Peter Marinker
- Released
- April 7, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Memoirs, Social Science, Health & Wellness
- ISBN
- 9780141972626
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead as an audiobook?
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead runs 7.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.
Is The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead?
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead is narrated by Peter Marinker.