How long does it take to read The 13 Clocks?
James Thurber, Marc Simont, Neil Gaiman
The 13 Clocks by James Thurber, Marc Simont, Neil Gaiman takes about 2 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 16 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1950. 124 pages, about 34,100 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"There has never been anything like this before, and there will never be anything like this again…[Thurber] takes such delight in the words. It's like it's written by somebody who wants to infect you with his love of words. There are poems hidden in the text. There are places where it wanders into rhyme and out again. There are all of the invented words. The story itself is nonsense in the finest possible way." —Neil Gaiman, interviewed in The Wall Street Journal
Subjects: Fiction, Uncles, Princesses, Minstrels, Time, Clocks and watches
