How long does it take to read Shoeless Joe?
W. P. Kinsella
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella takes about 4 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 265 pages, about 72,875 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One day while out in his corn field, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice saying, "If you build it, he will come." "He," of course, is Ray's hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson. "It" is a baseball stadium, which Ray carves out of his corn field.
Subjects: Fiction, Baseball players, Farmers, Fiction, fantasy, general, Iowa, fiction, Baseball
