How long does it take to read Shrine?
Shrine by James Herbert takes about 8 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 17 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1983. 452 pages, about 124,300 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine, a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old.
Subjects: Fiction, horror, Fiction, thrillers, general, English fiction
