How long does it take to read Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere)?
Novels (Congo / Eaters of the Dead / Sphere) by Michael Crichton takes about 13 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1994. 720 pages, about 198,000 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 22 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Contains three of Crichton's previously published novels: Congo, set deep in the jungle near the legendary ruins of a lost city; Sphere, set a thousand feet below the surface of the South Pacific, and Eaters of the Dead set in Bagdad in 922 A.D. All three novels transform fears of the unknown into moments of believable adventure and unbelievable suspense.
Subjects: adaptations, fiction, vikings, historical fiction, fantasy fiction, Northmen
