How long does it take to read Crewel Lye?
A Caustic Yarn
Crewel Lye by Piers Anthony takes about 5 hours 40 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Xanth
Previous: Dragon on a Pedestal Next: Golem in the Gears
About 5 hours 40 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 309 pages, about 84,975 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 40 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From back cover Tor paperback January 1985: A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS Jordan was a ghost in Castle Roogna now, spending his time with little five-year-old Ivy and watching his own past unfold on the magic tapestry. But once he had been a valorous knight, riding his ghost horse Pook on a fabulous and dangerous mission. He had been betrayed with a cruel lie by two wily magicians and the woman he loved. He had been killed at the end, and his bones had been scattered. Now he could not even remember where they had been buried. That was important, because Jordan's talent had been to recover from almost any injury, provided enough of his body could be assembled to grow together again. But all that had been four hundred years before. Nobody who was alive today knew or cared where his bones might be. It was hardly the proper ending for a gallant adventure!
Subjects: Xanth (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Xanth (imaginary place), fiction
