How long does it take to read A Dirty Job?
A Novel
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore takes about 8 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Death Merchant Chronicles
Next: Secondhand Souls
About 8 hours 12 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 447 pages, about 122,925 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death. It's a dirty job, but hey! Somebody's got to do it.
Subjects: Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Fathers and daughters, fiction, San francisco (calif.), fiction
