How long does it take to read The Cost of Living?
The Cost of Living by Arundhati Roy takes about 2 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 29 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1999. 135 pages, about 37,125 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Describes how India's ambitious dam projects created suffering along with modernization.
Subjects: Dams, Irrigation, Water resources development, Democracy, Sardar Sarovar (Narmada) Project, Environmental aspects
