How long does it take to read Night Watch?
Night Watch by Terry Pratchett takes about 7 hours 20 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 29 of Discworld
Previous: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents Next: Death and What Comes Next
About 7 hours 20 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2002. 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 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer he's pursuing has been transported back also. Worst of all, it's the eve of a fabled street rebellion that needlessly destroyed more than a few good (and not so good) men. Sam Vimes knows his duty, and by changing history he might just save some worthwhile necks—though it could cost him his own personal future. Plus there's a chance to steer a novice watchman straight and teach him a valuable thing or three about policing, an impressionable young copper named Sam Vimes.
Subjects: Fiction, Samuel Vimes (Fictitious character), Discworld (Imaginary place), Time travel, Fiction, fantasy, general, Discworld (imaginary place), fiction
