How long does it take to read The Body?
The Body by Stephen King takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find life, death, and intimations of their own mortality.
Subjects: novella, first-person narrative, post-traumatic stress disorder, World War II, law school, Vietnam War
