How long does it take to read Distress?
A Novel
Distress by Greg Egan takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It is 2055 and the world is far better--and infinitely worse.
Subjects: Fiction, Investigative reporting, Journalists, Science fiction, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, science fiction, general
