Greenlights

By Matthew McConaughey

đź“– How Long Does It Take to Read Greenlights?

Greenlights is 320 pages long, which means it has around 80,000 words (estimated 250 words per page). Wondering how much time you’ll need to finish it? Let’s break it down:

⏳ Reading Time Based on Speed

  • Average Reader (200 words per minute): About 6 hours and 40 minutes—perfect for a relaxed weekend or a few cozy evenings with tea and snacks.
  • Slower Reader (150 words per minute): Prefer to take your time? It’ll take around 8 hours and 53 minutes—enjoy it over several days at your own pace.
  • Fast Reader (300 words per minute): Speed through in just 4 hours and 27 minutes—a quick, exciting read!

⏳ What If You Read One Hour a Day?

If you set aside just one hour each day, here’s how long it’ll take:

  • At 200 words per minute: You’ll get through 48 pages per session and finish in 7 days—less than a week!
  • At 150 words per minute: Reading 36 pages daily, you’ll wrap up in 9 days—a relaxed, no-rush read.
  • At 300 words per minute: Speeding through 72 pages per session, you’ll be done in just 5 days!

📚 No Rush, Just Enjoy the Story!

No matter how fast or slow you go, Greenlights is here for you. Whether you devour it in a weekend or savor it over time, it’s a fun, immersive read whenever you’re ready to jump in!

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The life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

“The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years.”—USA Today

“McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
 
Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”
 
So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.
 
Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.
 
It’s a love letter.
To life.
 
It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.
 
Good luck.

Publish Date

2024-11-12

Publisher Name

Total Pages

320

ISBN 10

0593139151

ISBN 13

978-0593139158

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Dimension

6 x 0.83 x 8.44 inches

Weight

14.1 ounces

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