How long does it take to read Snow Crash?
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson takes about 8 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 26 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 460 pages, about 126,500 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 41 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we now live where all can be brought to life in the metaverse and now all can be taken away. Follow on an adventure with Hiro and YT as they work with the mob to uncover a plot of biblical proportions.
Subjects: American Science fiction, ready player one, Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, American fiction
