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How long does it take to read Clay's Ark?

Octavia E. Butler, Neal Ghant

Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler, Neal Ghant takes about 3 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 5 of Patternist series

Previous: Wild Seed

About 3 hours 52 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1984. 211 pages, about 58,025 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 52 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 25 minutes

The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In a frightening near future, an alien disease is poised to become a devastating global epidemic, unless someone can stop it.

Subjects: Human-alien encounters, Fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general, Kidnapping, Infection

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