How long does it take to read Against the Day?
Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon takes about 20 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 9 minutes
A long haul
First published 2006. 1,099 pages, about 302,225 words.
41 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 33 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 12 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Forecasting, Fiction, Historical fiction, Disasters, Fiction, historical, Fiction, historical, general
