How long does it take to read The Forbidden Experiment?
The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck takes about 4 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 220 pages, about 60,500 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
An account of the public life of a young boy who appeared in a French village in 1800 after living as a wild animal for most of his eleven or twelve years and of the attempts of a doctor to bring him to a civilized state.
Subjects: Feral children, Biography, Wild Boy of Aveyron, Wolfskinderen, Enfants sauvages, Biographies
