How long does it take to read Columbine?
Columbine by Dave Cullen takes about 7 hours 48 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 48 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 425 pages, about 116,875 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 48 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors.
Subjects: Columbine High School, Modern, Case studies, School shootings, Littleton (Colo.), Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.)
