Love in the Time of Cholera
At your speed≈ 7 hrs
Pages348
Audiobook≈ 11½ hrs
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.
348 pages works out to roughly 104,000 words. At an average 250 words a minute that is 7 hrs — a weekend's reading.
Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.81 out of 5, from 617 ratings.
Worth-it score 5.9/10 — Worth it for some readers. Readers 6.0 (Hardcover's 3.81★ from 617 ratings) − length 0.1 = 5.9. How the score works →
How long does it take to read Love in the Time of Cholera?
Love in the Time of Cholera is 348 pages, or roughly 104,000 words. How long that takes depends on how fast you read:
| Your pace | Words per minute | Time to finish |
|---|---|---|
| Slow | 175 | 10 hrs |
| Average | 250 | 7 hrs |
| Fast | 400 | 4½ hrs |
Estimated at about 300 words per page. Most adults read between 200 and 300 words a minute — set your own pace and every time on the site adjusts. Prefer to listen? At a typical narration pace of 150 words a minute the audiobook runs about 11½ hrs — an estimate from the word count, since narrators vary.
Common questions
- How long does it take to read Love in the Time of Cholera?
- About 7 hrs at an average reading speed of 250 words per minute. Love in the Time of Cholera runs 348 pages, roughly 104,000 words — so at a slower 175 wpm it is nearer 10 hrs, and at 400 wpm closer to 4½ hrs.
- How many pages is Love in the Time of Cholera?
- 348 pages, which is about 104,000 words and 7 hrs of reading. Editions vary, and only Hardcover lists a page count for it, so treat it as approximate.
- Is Love in the Time of Cholera worth reading?
- We score it 5.9 out of 10 for the time it takes — worth it for some readers. Readers on Hardcover rate it 3.81 out of 5 from 617 ratings, which counts for 6.0; at about 7 hrs at an average pace it gives back 0.1 for its length.
- How long is the Love in the Time of Cholera audiobook?
- About 11½ hrs, estimated from the 104,000 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
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people's lives together for more than half a century.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love.…
When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career, he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he does so again. With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, Gabriel García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises—joyful, melancholy, enriching, and ever surprising.
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