How long does it take to read The Big Nowhere?
The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy takes about 9 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 496 pages, about 136,400 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.
Subjects: Crime, Fiction, Crime in fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
