How long does it take to read The Beast?
Óscar Martinez
The Beast by Óscar Martinez takes about 5 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours
A weekend read
First published 2010. 273 pages, about 75,075 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got 120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the rest vanished. Óscar Martínez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year, and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped" --
Subjects: Illegal aliens, Emigration and immigration, Central Americans, Immigrants, Social aspects, Immigrants, united states
