Book · Thrillers and mysteries
You Like It Darker : Stories
by Stephen King
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start You Like It Darker : Stories, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 480
- Reading time
- ≈ 8 h 40 min
- Checkpoints
- 19
- Genre
- Thriller
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read You Like It Darker : Stories?
At 480 pages, You Like It Darker : Stories is a fairly long book. Expect about 8 hours 40 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 18 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 7 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day18 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)7 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 19 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 25
- Checkpoint 2, page 51
- Checkpoint 3, page 76
- Checkpoint 4, page 101
- Checkpoint 5, page 126
- Checkpoint 6, page 152
- Checkpoint 7, page 177
- Checkpoint 8, page 202
- Checkpoint 9, page 227
- Checkpoint 10, page 253
- Checkpoint 11, page 278
- Checkpoint 12, page 303
- Checkpoint 13, page 328
- Checkpoint 14, page 354
- Checkpoint 15, page 379
- Checkpoint 16, page 404
- Checkpoint 17, page 429
- Checkpoint 18, page 455
- Checkpoint 19, page 480
In Vread, You Like It Darker : Stories is split into 19 checkpoints, one every 25 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 19 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 You Like It Darker : Stories: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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