It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Look around you. The reflection of your face in a window tells you about the most shocking discovery in the history of science: that at its deepest level the world is orchestrated by chance; that ultimately, things happen for no reason at all. The iron in a spot of blood on your finger shows you that somewhere out in space there is a furnace at a temperature of 4.5 billion degrees. Static on your TV screen proclaims that the universe had a beginning. The bulb above your head emits light, and the light waves emerging from it are about five thousand times bigger than the atoms that spit them...
The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck aloud.
The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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