How long does it take to read The Thing?
A Novel
The Thing by Alan Dean Foster takes about 1 hour 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 53 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1982. 103 pages, about 28,325 words.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Movies, Motion Pictures, Films, Novelization, Horror, Science Fiction
