How long does it take to read Improbable?
Adam Fawer
Improbable by Adam Fawer takes about 8 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 30 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 464 pages, about 127,600 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Working underground poker clubs, epileptic gambler David Caine suffers his worst seizure after a costly miscalculation and agrees to test an experimental medication, but when he begins to experience bizarre visions, he embarks on a dangerous quest for survival alongside a rogue woman CIA assassin. David Caine, a compulsive gambler plagued by crippling epileptic seizures, gets more than he bargained for while testing an experimental medicine. Unsure whether he's perceiving an alternate reality or suffering a psychotic breakdown, Caine discovers that powerful forces want him for their own. A highly original debut novel by an aspiring new talent.
Subjects: Compulsive gamblers, Drugs, Epileptics, Experimental Medicine, Fiction, Side effects
