How long does it take to read Ogre, Ogre?
Ogre, Ogre by Piers Anthony takes about 5 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Xanth
Previous: Centaur Aisle Next: Night Mare
About 5 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1982. 307 pages, about 84,425 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From the back cover: WHEN OGRE-HOOD WAS IN FLOWER Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly speak, and they spent most of their time fighting, destroying, and eating young girls. So what was he doing here with seven assorted females looking to him to guide them and save them? Even in Xanth, where magic made anything possible, why should Tandy the Nymph trust him and seem fond of him? And how could all that high-flown conversation be coming out of his mouth? But that, it seemed, was what he got for going to Good Magician Humphrey for an Answer -- before he even knew what the Question was!
Subjects: Xanth (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fantasy, Giants, Monsters, Fantasy fiction
