How long does it take to read Casino Royale?
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of James Bond
Next: Live and Let Die
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 164 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Introducing James Bond: charming, sophisticated, handsome, chillingly ruthless and licensed to kill. This, the first of Ian Fleming's tales of secret agent 007, finds Bond on a mission to neutralize a lethal, high-rolling Russian operative called simply "le Chiffre" -- by ruining him at the Baccarat table and forcing his Soviet spymasters to "retire" him. It seems that lady luck is taken with 007 -- le Chiffre has hit a losing streak. But some people just refuse to play by the rules, and Bond's attraction to a beautiful female agent leads him to disaster and an unexpected savior...
Subjects: British, Fiction, Intelligence officers, Secret service, Intelligence service, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
