How long does it take to read Forging the Darksword?
Forging the Darksword by Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Darksword Trilogy
Next: Doom of the Darksword
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1987. 400 pages, about 110,000 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Born without magical abilities in a magic world, Joram flees to the Outlands after being exiled from his village, and joins the scholar Saryon, practitioner of the outlawed arts of science and creator of the Darksword
Subjects: Fiction, Swords, Magic, Fiction, fantasy, general, Epic Fantasy, Fantasy
