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How long does it take to read Lamb?

The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Christopher Moore

Lamb by Christopher Moore takes about 8 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 4 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 2002. 440 pages, about 121,000 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 27 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 3 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of Vonnegut and Douglas Adams" (Philadelphia Inquirer).Verily, the story Biff has to tell is a miraculous one, filled with remarkable journeys, magic, healings, kung fu, corpse reanimations, demons, and hot babes. Even the considerable wiles and devotion of the Savior's pal may not be enough to divert Joshua from his tragic destiny. But there's no one who loves Josh more -- except maybe "Maggie," Mary of Magdala -- and Biff isn't about to let his extraordinary pal suffer and ascend without a fight.

Subjects: Fiction, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, christian, general, Jesus christ, fiction

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