How long does it take to read The Naive and Sentimental Lover?
The Naive and Sentimental Lover by John le Carré takes about 8 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 40 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1971. 473 pages, about 130,075 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 25 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
John le Carre's "The Naive and Sentimental Lover" offers a dark and ribald send-up of both middle-class and bohemian pretensions that will astonish and delight his many fans. Aldo Cassidy is an entrepreneurial genius. At thirty-nine, he dominates the baby pram market and rewards his success with a custom Bentley. But Aldo's bourgeois life is upended by a chance encounter with Shamus, a charismatic writer whose first and only novel, blazoned across the firmament twenty years earlier. The two develop a passionate friendship that draws Aldo, smitten also with his new friend's luscious wife, into a life of reckless hedonism that threatens to consume them all. ''Sad, funny, captivating, and stunningly fertile, it is the most satisfying novel I have read this year.'' Sunday Express
Subjects: John le Carré, John Le Carre, Le Carre, Fiction, British, Great Britain
