How long does it take to read Underworld?
Underworld by Don DeLillo takes about 15 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 15 minutes
A long haul
First published 1997. 832 pages, about 228,800 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 25 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of The Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary -- Don DeLillos's greatest and most powerful work of fiction. -Back Cover
Subjects: Baseballs, Cold War, Ex-convicts, Executives, Fathers and sons, Fiction
