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How many pages is Deep Six?

Deep Six by Clive Cussler has a median of 470 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 442 to 480 pages.

Median pages
470
7 editions counted
Range
432–535
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
8.3h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
129k
at 275 words per page
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How long will Deep Six take you?

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Reading time
8 h 17 min
At 30 min a day
17 days
At 1 hour a day
9 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

450500550198519901995200020051984: 432 pages1985: 480 pages1985: 470 pages1985: 436 pages2003: 480 pages2006: 535 pages2009: 448 pagesmedian 470
450500550199020001984: 432 pages1985: 480 pages1985: 470 pages1985: 436 pages2003: 480 pages2006: 535 pages2009: 448 pagesmedian 470
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 37 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2009Little, Brown Book Group Limited–448OL33426220M
2006Pocket Star Books–535OL24936298M
2003PocketPaperback480OL7950704M
1985PocketPaperback480OL7659521M
1985Pocket Books–470OL24736821M
1985SpherePaperback436OL22026039M
1984Simon and Schuster–432OL24736823M

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Questions

How many pages is Deep Six?
About 470 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 432 to 535 pages.
How long does it take to read Deep Six?
About 8 h 17 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 17 days.
How many words is Deep Six?
Roughly 129,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).