How long does it take to read The Chessmen of Mars?
The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs takes about 4 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Barsoom
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About 4 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1922. 234 pages, about 64,350 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 313 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective - a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win.
Subjects: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science fiction, Barsoom, Barsoom (imaginary place), fiction, American Science fiction
