How long does it take to read All the Pretty Horses?
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy takes about 5 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Border Trilogy
Next: The Crossing
About 5 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 306 pages, about 84,150 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 54 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1949, sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole, raised on his grandfather's Texas ranch and fluent in both Spanish and English, learns that the property is to be sold after the old man's death. Unwilling to move into town, he leaves on horseback with his best friend, Lacey Rawlins, and the two ride south into Mexico hoping to find work as cowboys. Near the border they meet a younger boy calling himself Jimmy Blevins, who rides a horse far too fine for him. The novel opens the Border Trilogy.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, Ranch life, Horsemen and horsewomen, Prisoners, Cowboys, Americans
