How long does it take to read Guards! Guards!?
Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett takes about 6 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 8 of Discworld
About 6 hours 56 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 378 pages, about 103,950 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here there be dragons ... and the denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed extinct, a superb specimen of draco nobilis ("noble dragon" for those who don't understand italics) has appeared in Discworld's greatest city. Not only does this unwelcome visitor have a nasty habit of charbroiling everything in its path, in rather short order it is crowned King (it is a noble dragon, after all ...).
Subjects: Discworld (Imaginary Place), Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Fiction, Guards troops, Fantasy, English fiction
