How long does it take to read The Lost World?
The Lost World by Michael Crichton takes about 7 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Jurassic Park
Previous: Jurassic Park
About 7 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 430 pages, about 118,250 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 78 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Lost World is a 1995 techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, and the sequel to his 1990 novel Jurassic Park. It is his tenth novel under his own name and his twentieth overall, and it was published by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 1996. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, which is unrelated to the 2015 film of the same name.
Subjects: prions, scrapie, Ornitholestes, Mussaurus, Procompsognathus, Triceratops
