How long does it take to read Phineas Gage?
John Fleischman
Phineas Gage by John Fleischman takes about 1 hour 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2002. 86 pages, about 23,650 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain science. But he was forever changed by the accident, and what happened inside his brain will tell you a lot about how your brain works and what makes us who we are.(description taken from book page on Amazon)
Subjects: Mental health, Personality Disorders, Brain damage, Etiology, Patients, Complications
