What is the minimum time ever you finished reading a book?

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Re: What is the minimum time ever you finished reading a boo

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I'm a speed reader in my opinion. My pet peeve is reading a good book so fast that I wish I had slowed my pace. I've finished a 300 + plus page novel in half my work shift (6 hours)
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The shortest amount of time I have ever finished a book was about 2 hours.
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Usually a few hours, but it really depends on if I have time. I have finished some YA books in an hour or so.
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I read The Girl on the Train in about 2 and a half days! I loved it and couldn't put it down!!
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I finished the hunger games series in a single night, maybe 14 hours for all three. The fastest I've ever read a book... well I've finished (young) children's books in less than 10 minutes. I'm going to go for The Last Lecture, finished in an hour, but it is a fairly short book, fantastic read.
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Well, technically a little less than two hours. However, I haven't done that since middle school. Nowadays, if I'm really interested in a book it might take me a little less than four hours to finish one. Unless it's a really long book anyway. Or if it's really complicated from a plot standpoint.
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If I'm really into it I can finish it in a matter of hours.
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A few hours.
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I think one of the first books I read in two or three hours was A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. I was in the sixth grade and thought it was the best book that I had ever read.
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One day. It was a novel by Agatha Christie and it was the first book for her that did not include a murder. So I kept reading waiting for the murder to happen but it never did :D
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If the book draws me in I can read it in about 2 to 3 hours.
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BrownGirlBookSlayer wrote:I'm a speed reader in my opinion. My pet peeve is reading a good book so fast that I wish I had slowed my pace. I've finished a 300 + plus page novel in half my work shift (6 hours)
I can see how that would be annoying, but useful when you want to finish a book and you're crammed for time!

I've finished smaller books in a few hours. My record for a longer book was about 2 and a half days for Angels and Demons, for some reason I just could not stop with that one.
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There have been a few times that I have gotten so caught up in a book that I've finished it in just a matter of hours.
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Half a day is my minimum time
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I read a book usually in about 2 hours. Depending on how good it is.
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