How long does it take to read Behemoth?
Behemoth by Peter Watts takes about 9 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Rifters
Previous: Maelstrom
About 9 hours 14 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2012. 504 pages, about 138,600 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hiding out with her fellow cyborgs and their surviving creators for five years, Lenie Clarke is horrified when they are discovered by the doomsday microbe Behemoth, a situation that forces Lenie to take responsibility for her role in billions of deaths.
Subjects: Marine animals, Microorganisms, Fiction, Cyborgs, Underwater exploration, Fiction, science fiction, general
