How long does it take to read The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World?
The Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami takes about 8 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 59 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1985. 490 pages, about 134,750 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 28 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once a hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind. This unabridged edition uses the original Japanese title of the book, which was later inverted for foreign publications.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary, Tokyo (japan), fiction, Roman, Japanisch, Ficción
