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How long does it take to read Moonraker?

Ian Fleming

Moonraker by Ian Fleming takes about 4 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 3 of James Bond

Previous: Live and Let Die Next: Diamonds Are Forever

About 4 hours 41 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1955. 255 pages, about 70,125 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 48 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 41 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 55 minutes

The page count is the median across 107 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Flamboyant red cropped hair, florid skin, eyes blazing with hate— This Is the Face of Hugo Drax, The Mystery Man Behind Moonraker. A stranger, he came out of nowhere to build England the deadliest weapon ever devised by a human brain. A maniacal genius, he now holds the life of secret agent JAMES BOND in his fiendishly clever hands!!

Subjects: Fiction, Intelligence officers, James Bond (Fictitious character), espionage, thriller, Fiction, thrillers, espionage

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