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How long does it take to read The Time It Never Rained?

Elmer Kelton

The Time It Never Rained by Elmer Kelton takes about 7 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 38 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1973. 416 pages, about 114,400 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 43 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 38 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 46 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

This is a novel of people and times of a real, honest to goodness tragedy in Texas history. It is the story of the time and the people who live and worked in Western Texas during the severe prolonged drought of the 1950's. The ranchers and business people who lived and survived the time and the loss of their homes and business because of circumstances beyond their control. A real life story about real life people, like my Dad and Mom. I love this book, it is so "real".

Subjects: ranching, drought, Texas, Texas, fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, Fiction, westerns

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