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How long does it take to read Ghost Writer in the Sky?

Piers Anthony

Ghost Writer in the Sky by Piers Anthony takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 30 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2017. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 10 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 30 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 26 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The Night Colt has one ambition: to deliver dreams to the deserving. Unfortunately, only Night Mares can take on this task, and the Colt has no hope of leading his own herd if he can't get any practice. So he's struck a deal with a Mundane. During the hours when the Night Mares rest --dusk and dawn --the duo plants stories in the air, compelling the people of Xanth to enact them --whether they want to or not. Unwilling to participate in these fantasies, the princesses of Xanth, Dawn and Eve, come up with a plan to fight the menacing pair, but they'll need the help of two unlikely heroes to succeed. In Mundania, a mysterious painting entrances Ordinary People Tartan and Tara. But why do they each see something different when they look at it? They quickly learn that it's not a painting after all, but a portal to a magical world. With nothing to lose, they climb through the portal into Xanth and are met with a plea to help stop the Night Colt and his ghost writer. Tartan and Tara don't hesitate to join the quest to save Xanth from the ultimate pun-tastrophe. Together with their new friends, they'll begin a journey full of magic and romance --and, of course, puns --that will lead them to a long-lost prince, a beautiful dragoness, the goddess Isis, and a demon named Ted.

Subjects: Xanth (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Xanth (Imaginary place) -- Fiction

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