How long does it take to read Big Over Easy?
Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde takes about 7 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Nursery Crime
Next: Fourth Bear
About 7 hours 29 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2005. 408 pages, about 112,200 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Unconvinced that a former convict and millionaire philanthropist has been murdered by his suicide-victim ex-wife, detective inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Mary Mary, uncover a plot involving money laundering and asylum-seeking titans.
Subjects: Adaptations, Nursery rhymes, Fiction, Jack Spratt (Fictitious character), Humpty Dumpty (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general
