How long does it take to read Anansi Boys?
Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman takes about 7 hours 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 2 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2005. 384 pages, about 105,600 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 44 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
The page count is the median across 43 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Anansi Boys is a fantasy novel set in London and beyond. Charles Nancy, nicknamed Fat Charlie, is a timid man with little ambition who lives in the shadow of his flamboyant father. While Charlie is busy with reluctant wedding plans, news arrives that his father has died in Florida. At the funeral he learns that the man was the embodiment of Anansi, the West African spider god and trickster. He also learns that he has a brother he never knew, and that divine gifts passed to that sibling rather than to him.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction, Adventure fiction, Adventure stories, brothers, embezzlement, English fiction
