How long does it take to read Forrest Gump?
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom takes about 4 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1986. 245 pages, about 67,375 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 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A man named Forest Gump sits at a bus stop and tells everyone about his life. It starts in a doctor's office when he gets leg braces. Then he goes to school where he meets Jenny, and his entire school career and football. Then it goes on to college football. then to Vietnam where he meets bubba. then bubba dies and forest saves a whole platoon. After the war forest gets a medal of honor and runs across America. Then his mom dies. Then he finds jenny again. They have a kid and get married. Then jenny dies. Then the book ends but there is more than this in the town of Greenbow Alabama.
Subjects: Vietnam Conflict, College football, Young men, People with mental disabilities, Fiction, Fiction, general
