How long does it take to read Sail?
James Patterson, Howard Roughan
Sail by James Patterson, Howard Roughan takes about 7 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 410 pages, about 112,750 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic. This is the worst vacation ever.Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens. Survival may be the least of their concerns. Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes "Lost" and "Survivor" to a new level of terror.
Subjects: Fiction, Sailing, Widows, Problem families, Dysfunctional families, Suspense
