How long does it take to read The Pale King?
David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace, Michael Pietsch takes about 10 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 51 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2011. 592 pages, about 162,800 words.
22 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 5 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The character David Foster Wallace is introduced to the banal world of the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, and the host of strange people who work there, in a novel that was unfinished at the time of the author's death.
Subjects: Civil service, Office politics, Fiction, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, biographical
