How long does it take to read The Shape of Water?
Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus takes about 5 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 318 pages, about 87,450 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 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In an otherworldly story set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America, an amphibious man is discovered in the Amazon--and subsequently finds love within the human race.
Subjects: Fiction, romance, fantasy, Fiction, fantasy, historical, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Orphans, Fiction, Mute persons
