How long does it take to read Apt Pupil?
Apt Pupil by Stephen King takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism.
Subjects: novella, Germans, Nazis, war crime, Holocaust, Schutzstaffel
