How long does it take to read Three Men in a Boat?
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jérôme takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1889. 184 pages, about 50,600 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 37 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1,136 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Three feckless young men take a rowing holiday on the Thames river in 1888. Referenced by Robert A. Heinlein in Have Spacesuit Will Travel as Kip's father's favorite book. Inspired To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis.
Subjects: Humorous stories, Male friendship, Description and travel, Humor (Fiction), Boats and boating, Fiction
