How long does it take to read The Drawing of the Three?
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King takes about 8 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 2 of The Dark Tower
Previous: The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Next: The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
About 8 hours 25 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 459 pages, about 126,225 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 78 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Dark Tower II Part II of an epic saga. Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into a different person living in New York. Through these doorways, Roland draws the companions who will assist him on his quest to save the Dark Tower.
Subjects: sociopaths, dissociative identity disorder, civil rights, heroin, cocaine, lobstrosities