How long does it take to read The Weird?
A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories
Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer
The Weird by Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer takes about 20 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 20 hours 53 minutes
A long haul
First published 2011. 1,139 pages, about 313,225 words.
42 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 34 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 20 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 13 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories formThe Weird, and amongst its practitioners number some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features an all-star cast of authors, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners: 110 stories by authors including William Gibson, George RR Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M.R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon.
Subjects: Magic Realism, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, science fiction, general
