 FACT: After Nicole hands Kyle the copy of "War and Peace" she has  been reading, he flips through the remaining pages and a little  while later tells her she still has 29,642 words left. Considering  "War and Peace" contains more than 560,000 words, that would mean  that Nicole had read roughly 95% of the novel but you could clearly  see at the start of the conversation that she was reading near the  middle of the paperback.