How long does it take to read Necklace and Calabash?
Necklace and Calabash by Robert van Gulik takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Van Gulik's Judge Dee series
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About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1971. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Judges, History, China, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, historical
