How long does it take to read Doctor No?
Doctor No by Ian Fleming takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 6 of James Bond
Previous: From Russia, with Love Next: Goldfinger
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 119 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The sixth James Bond thriller from Ian Fleming’s typewriter. Dispatched by M to investigate the mysterious disappearance of MI6’s Jamaica station chief, Bond was expecting a holiday in the sun. But when he discovers a deadly centipede placed in his hotel room, the vacation is over. On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call ‘the Dragon,’ before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course-designed by the sadistic Dr No himself-that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, James Bond (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Jamaica, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, espionage
