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How long does it take to read Escape from Hell?

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

Escape from Hell by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle takes about 6 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 25 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2009. 350 pages, about 96,250 words.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 42 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 25 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 1 minute

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.

Subjects: Hell, Fiction, Fiction, occult & supernatural

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