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How long does it take to read Pattern Recognition?

William Gibson

Pattern Recognition by William Gibson takes about 6 hours 45 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of Hubertus Bigend trilogy

Next: Spook Country

About 6 hours 45 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2002. 368 pages, about 101,200 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 15 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 45 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 13 minutes

The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself. William Gibson's new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.

Subjects: Women private investigators in fiction, Women private investigators, Fiction, Business intelligence, Business intelligence in fiction, Fiction, suspense

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