How long does it take to read The Langoliers?
The Langoliers by Stephen King takes about 5 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 317 pages, about 87,175 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A group of travelers on a red-eye flight from California to Maine wake up to discover that most of their fellow passengers have vanished mid-flight, along with the pilots and flight attendants.
Subjects: Horror & ghost stories, horror fiction, fiction, space and time, airplanes, horror tales
