How long does it take to read Live and Let Die?
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming takes about 4 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of James Bond
Previous: Casino Royale Next: Moonraker
About 4 hours 42 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1954. 256 pages, about 70,400 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 135 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Mr Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Mr Big is one of the most dangerous men that he has ever faced. And no-one, not even the enigmatic Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end ...
Subjects: British, Fiction, Intelligence officers, James Bond (Fictitious character), Intelligence service, Fiction, espionage
