Books like Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Harold Bloom
Cormac McCarthy's The Road is 148 pages, about 2 hours 43 minutes at 250 words a minute.
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The Black Prism 12.1 h 
The Gypsy Morph 7.4 h 
Swan Song 17.5 h 
On Such a Full Sea 6.5 h 
Black Tide Rising 5.6 h 
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