How long does it take to read Drop City?
Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle takes about 8 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 7 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2003. 443 pages, about 121,825 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 5 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier - the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska - in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife, Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already successfully homesteading in the wilderness, and the brothers and sisters of "Drop City," led by Norm Sander and three idealistic emigres from the east coast, Star, her boyfriend, Marco, and Ronnie. As these two communities collide, unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment and a roof over one's head."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Fiction, Hippies, California, fiction, Alaska, fiction, Fiction, historical, Hippie
