How long does it take to read Piper?
Brett Rutherford
Piper by Brett Rutherford takes about 8 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1987. 463 pages, about 127,325 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
FOLLOW THE CHILDREN The town of Elliot would have liked nothing better than to put up a billboard that read: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS IN OUR TOWN: But after the children's clinic burned to the ground, that was no longer true. Suddenly, for police officer Eddie Hecht, it seemed every night brought a bizarre new crime, another gruesome murder. And the crazy thing was, each case somehow involved a child ... FOLLOW THE LEADER Ten-year-old Timmy Hecht knew something big was happening because his dad was always on duty. And when he came home he was too grouchy and tired to hear about Timmy's new friend -- the one who came to his window at night and asked him things. Things about school. Things about the other children. It must be lonely out there in the cold and dark. Maybe next time, Timmy would go out and play with him -- and bring all his friends ...
Subjects: Fiction, horror, Horror
