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How long does it take to read Diamonds Are Forever?

Ian Fleming

Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming takes about 4 hours 32 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 4 of James Bond

Previous: Moonraker Next: From Russia, with Love

About 4 hours 32 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1956. 247 pages, about 67,925 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 33 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 32 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 50 minutes

The page count is the median across 117 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with a man. In any event, since it’s your check, I’m going to have caviar, and what the English call 'cutlets,' and some pink champagne. I don’t often date a good-looking Englishman and the dinner’s going to live up to the occasion." Meet Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde; the kind of girl you could get into a lot of trouble with—if you wanted. She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter, the ice-maiden herself …

Subjects: British, Diamond smuggling, English Spy stories, Fiction, Intelligence officers, Fiction, thrillers, espionage

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