How long does it take to read Carrion Comfort?
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons takes about 15 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 26 minutes
A long haul
First published 1989. 842 pages, about 231,550 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Carrion Comfort is a horror novel in which a tiny fraction of humanity possesses a psychic power called the Ability, allowing them to take remote control of other people and force them to do anything, including murder. Such killings leave the users feeling younger and more alive, and the power has shaped history from individual crimes to the Holocaust. In 1980, two groups of amoral users, some seeking world domination, come into conflict. Meanwhile, a psychiatrist who survived a Nazi camp, a sheriff and a photographer, none of them psychic, follow a string of bizarre murders toward a hidden cabal.
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Subjects: American Horror tales, Vampires, Fiction, Psychic ability, Horror tales, American, Fiction, fantasy, general
