How long does it take to read Acceptance?
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer takes about 6 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Southern Reach Series
Previous: Authority Next: Absolution
About 6 hours 27 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 352 pages, about 96,800 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Acceptance, published in 2014, is the third of four novels in the Southern Reach Series. Moving back and forth in time and between viewpoints, it returns to characters from the earlier books, which centered on Area X, a restricted, uninhabited region governed by a government agency called the Southern Reach, where anomalous events occur. One strand follows a lighthouse keeper named Saul Evans in the period just before Area X appears; another follows the psychologist who becomes the agency's director; a third follows Control and Ghost Bird after they cross into Area X.
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Subjects: Fiction, Missing persons, Scientists, Psychic ability, Scientific expeditions, Body horror
