How long does it take to read The Shooting Star?
The Shooting Star by Hergé takes about 1 hour 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1960. 62 pages, about 17,050 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tintin, Snowy, and Captain Haddock search in the polar regions for a vast meteorite containing a valuable new metal.
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons, Comic books, strips, Juvenile fiction, Meteorites, Pictorial Belgian wit and humor, Children's fiction
