How long does it take to read The Big Gold Dream?
The Big Gold Dream by Chester Himes takes about 2 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 2 hours 56 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1960. 160 pages, about 44,000 words.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 50 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: African American police, Coffin Ed Johnson (Fictitious character), Fiction, Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, New york (n.y.), fiction
