How long does it take to read The Passage?
The Passage by Justin Cronin takes about 16 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of The Passage
Next: The Twelve
About 16 hours 37 minutes
A long haul
First published 2010. 906 pages, about 249,150 words.
34 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 27 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 47 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Passage opens in 2016 with a secret government project that transports death row inmates to a military compound in Colorado. There, they are given an experimental drug derived from a virus carried by bats in South America, which is meant to prolong human life. Federal agent Brad Wolgast is ordered to bring a six-year-old girl, Amy Bellafonte, from a convent to the project's director. The story then spans more than ninety years, following a world overrun by virus-infected, blood-hungry creatures and the walled colonies of survivors in California. Documents, emails and journal entries help tell it.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: FICTION, HORROR & GHOST STORIES, SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, Vampire fiction, Novels
