Slaughterhouse-Five — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 6.1 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 6.1 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 86% of the fantasy audiobooks we measured.
- That's 50% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook (12.3 hrs across 761 titles in our dataset).
Computed from fantasy audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for fantasy listeners — a weekend-size listen at 6.1 hours (estimated).
About the book
Slaughterhouse-Five is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW who has, in the later stage of his life, become "unstuck in time" and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known events of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously. Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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How long is the Slaughterhouse-Five audiobook?
Slaughterhouse-Five runs about 6.1 hours — our estimate from its 205 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.1 hours.
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When was Slaughterhouse-Five first published?
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut was first published in 1956.
