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How long does it take to read The Eye of the World?

Book One of the Wheel of Time

Robert Jordan

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan takes about 14 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 1 of The Wheel of Time

Previous: New Spring Next: The Great Hunt

About 14 hours 21 minutes

A week or two of reading

First published 1990. 783 pages, about 215,325 words.

29 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 23 hours 56 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 14 hours 21 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 8 hours 58 minutes

The page count is the median across 69 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

Content warnings (AI-checked, may be incomplete)
  • violence
  • war

How these are chosen

Subjects: Fantasy fiction, Rand al'Thor (Fictitious character), Fiction, Fantasy ., American Fantasy, al'Thor Rand (Fictitious character)

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