It takes the average reader 13 hours and 20 minutes to read Drood by Dan Simmons
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something...
Drood by Dan Simmons is 800 pages long, and a total of 200,000 words.
This makes it 270% the length of the average book. It also has 244% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 18 hours and 12 minutes to read Drood aloud.
Drood is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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