How long does it take to read 1636?
1636 by Eric Flint takes about 8 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 35 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2017. 468 pages, about 128,700 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Most of the Church's senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon in Burgundy, where Pope Urban's renegade papacy, now on the run from the Vatican's would-be usurper Borja, plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at war. Fortunately, Urban has up-time help relying on Cardinal Protector Larry Mazzare's theological savvy, Sharon Nichol's medical skills, and a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion on loan by Mike Stearns. Which is prudent as Borja's assassins and other killers are determined to stop him"--
Subjects: Popes, Alternative histories (Fiction), Time travel, Fiction, France, fiction, Fiction, alternative history
