How long does it take to read Portnoy's Complaint?
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 288 pages, about 79,200 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 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 79 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Coming of age, Mothers and sons, Czech fiction, Young men in fiction, Jewish men in fiction, Fiction
