How long does it take to read Six Four?
Hideo Yokoyama
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama takes about 11 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours
A week or two of reading
First published 2016. 600 pages, about 165,000 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no reader could predict. For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands of their daughter's kidnapper. They would never learn his identity. They would never see their daughter again. For the fourteen years that followed, the Japanese public listened to the police's apologies. They would never forget the botched investigation that became known as Six Four. They would never forgive the authorities for their failure. For one week in late 2002, the press officer attached to the police department in question confronted an anomaly in the case. He could never imagine what he would uncover. He would never have looked if he'd known what he would find. "--
Subjects: Kidnapping, Police, Investigation, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Fiction, Tokyo (japan), fiction
