How long does it take to read Sphere?
Sphere by Michael Crichton takes about 7 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 385 pages, about 105,875 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 70 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination. ---
Subjects: space ships, space vehicles, squid, psychology, giant squid, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
