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How long does it take to read Dark Matter?

Blake Crouch

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch takes about 6 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 43 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2016. 366 pages, about 100,650 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 11 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? How can he possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. --

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence

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Subjects: Kidnapping, Fiction, Reality, Science Fiction, Psychological, Technological

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