How long does it take to read Duma Key?
Duma Key by Stephen King takes about 12 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 36 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 687 pages, about 188,925 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 44 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Edgar Freemantle, a wealthy Minnesota building contractor, survives a terrible accident at a worksite when a crane crushes his truck. He loses his right arm and suffers brain injuries that affect his speech, sight and memory. Plagued by dark moods that end his marriage, he follows his psychologist's advice and moves to a rented beach house on Duma Key, an island off Florida's coast. There he takes up sketching again, befriends an elderly heiress with dementia and her caretaker, and finds that his drawing and painting begin to carry a strange, unsettling force.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
- violence
- death of a child
- suicide
- abuse
Subjects: Accidentes, Accident victims, Paranormal fiction, Sobrenatural, Novela, Ficción
