How long does it take to read Only You Can Save Mankind?
Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Johnny Maxwell trilogy
Next: Johnny and the Dead
About 4 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 221 pages, about 60,775 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 33 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Twelve-year-old Johnny endures tensions between his parents, watches television coverage of the Gulf War, and plays a computer game called Only You Can Save Mankind, in which he is increasingly drawn into the reality of the alien ScreeWee.
Subjects: Computer games, Conduct of life, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Life on other planets, War
