How long does it take to read Goldfinger?
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming takes about 5 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of James Bond
Previous: Doctor No Next: For Your Eyes Only
About 5 hours 41 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1958. 310 pages, about 85,250 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 144 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A friendly game of two-handed canasta turns out to be thoroughly crooked. And a beautiful girl ends up dead. In Bond's first encounter with Auric Goldfinger - the world's cleverest, cruellest criminal, useful lessons are learned.
Subjects: Fiction, Gold smuggling, James Bond (Fictitious character), Intelligence service, Fiction, thrillers, espionage, Suspense fiction
