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Brain Damage

Freida McFadden

At your speed8 hrs

Pages398

Audiobook13½ hrs

398 pages works out to roughly 119,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 8 hrs — a weekend's reading.

Only 49 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way.

How long does it take to read Brain Damage?

Brain Damage is 398 pages, or roughly 119,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:

Estimated reading time for Brain Damage at three reading speeds.
Your paceWords per minuteTime to finish
Slow17511½ hrs
Average2508 hrs
Fast4005 hrs

Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — use the reading-speed control to set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts.

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Every reading time on the site updates to your pace. Page counts are an estimate, so treat the hours as a good guide, not a stopwatch.

Common questions

How long does it take to read Brain Damage?
About 8 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Brain Damage runs 398 pages, roughly 119,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 11½ hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 5 hrs.
How many pages is Brain Damage?
398 pages, which is about 119,000 words and 8 hrs of reading. Editions vary, so we take the figure two of our three sources agree on.
Is Brain Damage worth reading?
Only 49 readers have rated it on Hardcover so far — too few to tell you much either way. What we can tell you for certain is the cost: 398 pages and about 8 hrs of your time, or 5 hrs if you read quickly. Whether that is worth it depends on the hours you have.
How long is the Brain Damage audiobook?
About 13½ hrs, estimated from the 119,000 words at a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute. Real editions vary by narrator, usually by well under an hour.

From the publisher

After years of hard work, Dr. Charly McKenna finally has it all. Prosperous career as a dermatologist? Check. Spacious apartment overlooking Central Park? Check. Handsome lawyer husband?

Double check.Then one night, a bullet rips through the right side of her skull and she loses everything.As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her... before he finishes the job he started.

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