How long does it take to read Mile 81?
Mile 81 by Stephen King takes about 1 hour 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 17 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2011. 70 pages, about 19,250 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the entrance ramp of the deserted Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. But two kids and a horse are the only living things left...unless you maybe count the wagon. With the heart of Stand By Me and the genius horror of Christine, Mile 81 is Stephen King unleashing his imagination as he drives past one of those road signs.
Subjects: Roadside rest areas, Fiction, Fiction, horror, Maine, fiction
