How long does it take to read The Moving Target?
The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald takes about 3 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 217 pages, about 59,675 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 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Lew Archer (Fictitious character), Private investigators, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction
