How long does it take to read We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing?
James C. Whittaker
We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing by James C. Whittaker takes about 2 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 33 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1943. 139 pages, about 38,225 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's big Liberator bomber crashed in the waters of the south Pacific in 1942, little hope was held out for her crew. But the men survived three weeks on the open ocean in one of WWII's largest campaign theaters.
Subjects: Airplanes, Ditching, Airplane crash survival
