How long does it take to read Summer of Night?
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons takes about 10 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Seasons of Horror
Next: Children of the Night
About 10 hours 34 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 576 pages, about 158,400 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 17 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, and five 12-year old boys are forming the bonds that a lifetime of changes will never erase. But then a dark cloud threatens the bright promise of summer vacation: on the last day of school, their classmate Tubby Cooke vanishes. Soon, the group discovers stories of other children who once disappeared from Elm Haven. And there are other strange things happening in town: unexplained holes in the ground, a stranger dressed as a World War I soldier, and a rendering-plant truck that seems to be following the five boys. The friends realize that there is a terrible evil lurking in Elm Haven...and they must be the ones to stop it.
Subjects: Horror, coming of age., Haunted places, Fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, general
