How long does it take to read Something Rotten?
Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of Thursday Next
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About 7 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2004. 416 pages, about 114,400 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 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 24 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tired of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, literary sleuth Thursday Next packs up her son, Friday, to return to Swindon, accompanied by the Danish prince Hamlet, only to find herself coping with outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine.
Subjects: Thursday Next (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Fiction, English women novelists in fiction, English Women novelists, Women detectives in fiction