How long does it take to read Fourth Bear?
Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde takes about 7 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of Nursery Crime
Previous: Big Over Easy
About 7 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 391 pages, about 107,525 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman?sadist, psychopath, cookie?is on the loose in Reading, but that?s not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they?ve been demoted to searching for missing journalist ?Goldy? Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furry?uh, funny?about their story, starting with the porridge. The Fourth Bear is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.
Subjects: Nursery rhymes, Adaptations, Mystery, Fiction, Fantasy, Humorous fiction
