How long does it take to read The Land That Time Forgot?
The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs takes about 4 hours to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Caspak trilogy
Next: Out of Time's Abyss
About 4 hours
A weekend read
First published 1918. 218 pages, about 59,950 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the book: It must have been a little after three o'clock in the afternoon that it happened - the afternoon of June 3rd, 1916. It seems incredible that all that I have passed through - all those weird and terrifying experiences - should have been encompassed within so short a span as three brief months. Rather might I have experienced a cosmic cycle, with all its changes and evolutions for that which I have seen with my own eyes in this brief interval of time - things that no other mortal eye had seen before, glimpses of a world past, a world dead, a world so long dead that even in the lowest Cambrian stratum no trace of it remains. Fused with the melting inner crust, it has passed forever beyond the ken of man other than in that lost pocket of the earth whither fate has borne me and where my doom is sealed. I am here and here must remain.
Subjects: Prehistoric peoples, Fiction, Dinosaurs, Lost continents, Fiction, science fiction, general, American Science fiction
