How long does it take to read His Dark Materials?
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman takes about 17 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 59 minutes
A long haul
First published 2000. 981 pages, about 269,775 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 40 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought...
Subjects: Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction, Non-classifiable, Kidnapping, Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, Action & Adventure
