Congo — Audiobook
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 10.3 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 21 days |
| 1 hour / day | 11 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in—by —
What our data says
- At 10.3 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 69% of the thriller audiobooks we measured.
- That's 20% shorter than the average thriller audiobook (12.9 hrs across 259 titles in our dataset).
Computed from thriller audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset; listening time estimated from page count.
Who is this for?
Best for thriller listeners — a solid week of commutes at 10.3 hours (estimated).
About the book
Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642…a drawing of an ancient lost city.
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How long is the Congo audiobook?
Congo runs about 10.3 hours — our estimate from its 348 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.9 hours.
Can I listen to Congo free?
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Is Congo worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.9 hours — saving 3.4 hours. Most listeners adjust to 1.25–1.5× within a chapter or two.
When was Congo first published?
Congo by Michael Crichton was first published in 1980.