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How long does it take to read The Reptile Room?

Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman, Nestor Busquets

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman, Nestor Busquets takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 2 of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Previous: The Bad Beginning Next: The Wide Window

About 3 hours 31 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1999. 192 pages, about 52,800 words. Written for children.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 52 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 31 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Book 2 of A Series of Unfortunate Events. The three unluckiest children in the world return for another misfortunate adventure. The Baudelaire children survived their first encounter with the dastardly and scheming Olaf, but the Count doesn't give up easily. Nor does the Baudelaire luck ever seem to improve.

Subjects: Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Humorous stories, Children's fiction, Brothers and sisters, Orphans, Juvenile fiction

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