How long does it take to read All Tomorrow's Parties?
All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Bridge trilogy
Previous: Idoru
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
All Tomorrow's Parties is the final novel in the Bridge trilogy. From his cardboard box in the Tokyo subway, connected to the Internet, a clairvoyant cyberpunk mobilizes his friends to avert a world disaster. It is due to occur on a bridge in San Francisco, now home to squatters, and is part of a rich man's bid for world domination.
Subjects: Cyberspace, Space and time, Fiction, Reality, Twenty-first century, Emergent Technology