How long does it take to read Jitterbug Perfume?
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins takes about 6 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 342 pages, about 94,050 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jitterbug Perfume is an epic. Which is to say, it begins in the forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock tonight (Paris time).It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero, and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle.The bottle is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned god. If the liquid in the bottle actually is the secret essence of the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered soon because it is leaking and there is only a drop or two left.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Fiction, Perfumes industry, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Fiction, general, Immortality, Spiritual life
