How long does it take to read Couples?
Couples by John Updike takes about 8 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1968. 482 pages, about 132,550 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 98 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the lives of a group of couples in an upperclass Boston suburb through their parties, recreations, child neglect, and wife-swapping.
Subjects: Fiction, Married people, Suburban life, Adultery, Married people, fiction, Couples
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