How long does it take to read The Long Goodbye?
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1953. 320 pages, about 88,000 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 35 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Subjects: Los Angeles (Calif.), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Political
