How long does it take to read Dead Beat?
a novel of the Dresden files
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher takes about 8 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of The Dresden Files
Previous: Blood Rites Next: Proven Guilty
About 8 hours 15 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 450 pages, about 123,750 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 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 15 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Harry Dresden's first hardcover adventure finds Chicago's preeminent wizard coping with his new roommate--vampire half-brother Thomas. Harry soon has problems bigger than Thomas' clutter to deal with. Marva, one of Harry's vampire foes, summons him with a threat to his police-lieutenant friend, Karrin Murphy. Marva demands Harry get the Word of Kemmler for her, or she'll frame Murphy for murder. Harry doesn't even know what the Word is, but while he's trying to find out, and also what damage Marva will be able to do with it, several necromancers descend on Chicago. When Harry learns that the newcomers are students of Kemmler, an evil wizard who mastered ancient spirits in a way no one has since, he discovers that they are seeking the Word, too, in hopes of seizing the powerful knowledge within it and calling forth a powerful creature known as the Erlking. Butcher's latest maintains the momentum of previous Dresden outings and builds the suspense right up to a rousing conclusion. Kristine Huntley Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved After reading the original story, I was blown away once again by Butcher's ability to write a tight, suspenseful story with a twisting turning ending. Love his work!
Subjects: Harry Dresden (Fictitious character), Wizards, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
