How long does it take to read V.?
Thomas Pynchon, Carlos Martín
V. by Thomas Pynchon, Carlos Martín takes about 9 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 1963. 492 pages, about 135,300 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V [Victoria Wren], who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.
Subjects: Fiction, Missing persons, Psychological fiction, Bohemianism, Symbolism, Rogues and vagabonds
