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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

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