How long does it take to read The Drought?
The Drought by J. G. Ballard takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1965. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A key backlist title from the author of Cocaine Nights, Empire of the Sun and Crash, now in PerfectBound e-book.
Subjects: Fiction, general, Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, Droughts, Disasters
