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How long does it take to read Cold Moon Over Babylon?

Michael McDowell

Cold Moon Over Babylon by Michael McDowell takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 42 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1980. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 49 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 42 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 56 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime. But soon he begins to see not only the ghost of Margaret, but other watery spirits that pursue him. The fever of a guilty conscience? Encroaching insanity? Or has Nathan inadvertently awaken the sinister and vengeful spirit of the river itself?

Subjects: Fiction, general

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