How long does it take to read The Commitments?
The Commitments by Roddy Doyle takes about 3 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Barrytown Trilogy
Next: The Snapper
About 3 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 165 pages, about 45,375 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Commitments (1987) is a novel by Irish writer Roddy Doyle.[2] The first episode in The Barrytown Trilogy, it is about a group of unemployed young people in the north side of Dublin, Ireland, who start a soul band.
Subjects: Fiction, Bands (Music), Soul musicians, Musical fiction, soul music, gigs
