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The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start The Naked and the Dead, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 981
- Reading time
- ≈ 17 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 27
- Genre
- Classic
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read The Naked and the Dead?
At 981 pages, The Naked and the Dead is a doorstopper. Expect about 17 hours 50 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 36 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 14 reading days. For a book of this length (600 pages or more), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 6.4 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day36 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)14 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 27 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 36
- Checkpoint 2, page 73
- Checkpoint 3, page 109
- Checkpoint 4, page 145
- Checkpoint 5, page 182
- Checkpoint 6, page 218
- Checkpoint 7, page 254
- Checkpoint 8, page 291
- Checkpoint 9, page 327
- Checkpoint 10, page 363
- Checkpoint 11, page 400
- Checkpoint 12, page 436
- Checkpoint 13, page 472
- Checkpoint 14, page 509
- Checkpoint 15, page 545
- Checkpoint 16, page 581
- Checkpoint 17, page 618
- Checkpoint 18, page 654
- Checkpoint 19, page 690
- Checkpoint 20, page 727
- Checkpoint 21, page 763
- Checkpoint 22, page 799
- Checkpoint 23, page 836
- Checkpoint 24, page 872
- Checkpoint 25, page 908
- Checkpoint 26, page 945
- Checkpoint 27, page 981
In Vread, The Naked and the Dead is split into 27 checkpoints, one every 36 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 27 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
This is not a question from The Naked and the Dead: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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