How long does it take to read The October Country?
The October Country by Ray Bradbury takes about 5 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1955. 306 pages, about 84,150 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 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 53 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. Each of the stories in Ray Bradbury's masterful collection is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place of shadows. But there is astonishing beauty here as well, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls, that chills like a long-after-midnight wind, that lifts the reader high above a sleeping Earth on strange wings."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American, Horror tales, American, American Science fiction, American Fantasy fiction, American Horror tales, English Short stories
