How long does it take to read Spook Who Sat by Door?
Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley
Spook Who Sat by Door by Sam Greenlee, Natiki Hope Pressley takes about 4 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 248 pages, about 68,200 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 35 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A political thriller set in 1970s' Chicago, about the first African American recruited to a deskjob by the CIA as a token of their commitment to integration, who ultimately uses the guerrilla tactics he has learned to train young black men in the inner city to become "freedom fighters".
Subjects: African American men, Fiction, Fiction, general, African Americans, Riots, Race relations
