How long does it take to read The Spear?
The Spear by James Herbert takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1978. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Fiction, Holy Lance, Fiction, thrillers, general, Literature and fiction (general), Neo-Nazism, Horror tales
