Reading Level
What is the reading level of The Road?
Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Road is 6th and 7th grade.
Expert Readability Tests for
The Road
| Readability Test | Reading Level |
|---|---|
| Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 5 |
| SMOG Index | Grade 7 |
| Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
| Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
Reading Time
4 hrs 8 mins
How long to read The Road?
The estimated word count of The Road is 61,845 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 8 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 6 hrs 53 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 18 mins.
| The Road - 61,845 words | ||
|---|---|---|
| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 6 hrs 53 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 8 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 18 mins |
- Authors
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Cormac McCarthy
More about The Road
61,845 words
Word Count
for The Road
6 hours and 39 minutes
Audiobook length
Description
A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.