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B. J. Novak

One More Thing by B. J. Novak takes about 5 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 4 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2014. 276 pages, about 75,900 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 26 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 4 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 10 minutes

The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction. A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes--only to discover how claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins--turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We also meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just. down. Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element that might just make a person complete."--

Subjects: Fiction, humorous, Fiction, short stories (single author), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, HUMOR / General, Humorous stories

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