How long does it take to read The Basic Eight?
The Basic Eight by Lemony Snicket takes about 6 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 58 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2006. 380 pages, about 104,500 words. Written for young adults.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 21 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that she's not a murderer at all -- she's a murderess
Subjects: Nineteen nineties, Book clubs (Discussion groups), High school students, Teenagers, Fiction, High schools
