How long does it take to read Crime Partners?
Crime Partners by Donald Goines takes about 3 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 3 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1974. 191 pages, about 52,525 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Goines’ powerful first novel lays bare the bloody, brutal world of crime in the black ghetto, where, as Goines put it, “kindness was the sweetest con of all.” Here is the gutsy and often shocking world of Billy and Jackie, prison buddies on the streets and hot on the trigger.
Subjects: Fiction, African Americans, African American criminals, Fiction, general, Fiction, action & adventure