How long does it take to read Drood?
Drood by Dan Simmons takes about 17 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 39 minutes
A long haul
First published 2009. 963 pages, about 264,825 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying? Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), Drood explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, Drood is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.
Subjects: Biographical Fiction, Charles Dickens, Detective, Fiction, Historical Fiction, History
