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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel’...
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Reading Time Estimates
15h 6m
slow reader
180 WPM
10h 52m
average reader
250 WPM
7h 46m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 163,075 words📅 22 days at 30 min/day
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Reading time
10 h 52 min
at 250 words per minute
Audiobook (1.5x)
12 h 5 min
at 1.5x narration speed
Audio 1x
18 h 7 min
Audio 2x
9 h 4 min
That's about:
- 📅22 days reading 30 min/day
- 🚇22 commutes of 30 min each
