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How long does it take to read Lucky You?

Carl Hiaasen

Lucky You by Carl Hiaasen takes about 8 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 8 hours 47 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1997. 479 pages, about 131,725 words.

18 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 14 hours 38 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 8 hours 47 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 5 hours 29 minutes

The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles - the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery. Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the whole $28 million jackpot. And they need it quickly, to start their own underground militia before NATO troops invade America. But JoLayne Lucks has her own plans for the Lotto money - an Eden-like forest in Grange must be saved from strip-malling. When Bode and Chub brutally assault her and steal her ticket, JoLayne vows to track them down, take it back - and get revenge. The only one who can help is Tom Krome, a big-city investigative journalist now bitterly consigned to writing frothy features for a midsized central Florida newspaper. With a persuasive nudge from JoLayne, Krome is about to become part of a story that's bigger and more bizarre than anything he's ever covered.

Subjects: Fiction, White supremacy movements, Lottery winners, Humorous stories, Florida, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general

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