How long does it take to read The Cutting Room?
Louise Welsh
The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous autioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly distrubing photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness...
Subjects: Auctioneers, Fiction, Gay men, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Gay men, fiction, Scotland, fiction