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Christopher Pike

Chain Letter by Christopher Pike takes about 3 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

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About 3 hours 24 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1986. 185 pages, about 50,875 words. Written for children.

7 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 39 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 24 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

They all shared the same secret...now they would share the same terror When Alison first read the chain letter signed 'Your Caretaker', she thought it was some terrible sick joke. Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when she and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. And now that person was determined to make them pay for it. One by one, the chain letter came to each of them... demanding dangerous, impossible deeds... threatening violence if the demands were not met. No one out of the seven wanted to believe that this nightmare was really happening to them. Until the accidents started happening - and the dying...

Subjects: Mystery fiction, horror tales, horror fiction, juvenile fiction, Juvenile works, fiction

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