How long does it take to read The Crying of Lot 49?
Thomas Pynchon, Antonio-Prometeo Moya
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Antonio-Prometeo Moya takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 176 pages, about 48,400 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 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Oedipa Maas, executor of the will of Pierce Inverarity, journeys through a bizarre underground of secret societies, jazz clubs, beatniks, and her own psyche. Readers accustomed to postmodern literature will revel in Pynchon's second novel.
Subjects: Administration of estates, Married women, Fiction, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Odysseus (Greek mythology), Poetry
