How long does it take to read Planet of the Apes?
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 208 pages, about 57,200 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 61 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In this 1963 French science fiction novel, three human explorers travel from Earth to a planet orbiting the star Betelgeuse. The journey takes two years for them, though centuries pass back home. The party consists of a journalist named Ulysse Mérou, a professor, and the professor's disciple, a physician. They land on a temperate, forested world and name it Soror. There they discover a reversal of the order they know: great apes form the dominant, civilized species, while humans live in a savage, animal-like state. The story is presented as a manuscript found by a couple sailing through space.
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Subjects: Fiction, Monkeys, Science fiction, Apes, Sci-Fi, Movies
