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How long does it take to read In the Miso Soup?

Ryū Murakami

In the Miso Soup by Ryū Murakami takes about 3 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 18 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2003. 180 pages, about 49,500 words.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 30 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 18 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 4 minutes

The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's sleazy nightlife on three successive evenings. But Frank's behavior is so strange that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: that his new client is in fact the serial killer currently terrorizing the city. It isn't until later, however, that Kenji learns exactly how much he has to fear and how irrevocably his encounter with this great white whale of an American will change his life.

Subjects: Social life and customs, Tour guides (Persons), Serial murderers, Sex-oriented businesses, Fiction, Serial murders, fiction

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