How long does it take to read The Crow Road?
The Crow Road by Iain Banks takes about 9 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 11 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 501 pages, about 137,775 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 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From its bravura opening onwards, THE CROW ROAD is justly regarded as an outstanding contemporary novel. 'It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach.' Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about the McHoan past, present and future, he is also deeply preoccupied: mainly with death, sex, drink, God and illegal substances...
Subjects: Fiction, Missing persons, Eccentrics and eccentricities
