How long does it take to read It Can't Always Be Caviar?
Johannes Mario Simmel
It Can't Always Be Caviar by Johannes Mario Simmel takes about 8 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1965. 447 pages, about 122,925 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Driven from his cherished London home by circumstances beyond his control, Thomas Lieven -- ladies man, pacifist and gourmand -- reluctantly finds himself forced to work as a secret agent for no less than four countries on various fronts of wartime Europe: England, France, Germany and the United States, before, during and after WWII. The book includes the recipes of the gourmet meals which Lieven prepares for friend and, sometimes, foe, during his manifold adventures, and which are a treat entirely in their own right. Just flat out loved this book!
Subjects: Gourmet spy, reluctant spy
