How long does it take to read Practical Demonkeeping?
A Comedy of Horrors
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 250 pages, about 68,750 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Christopher Moore's ingenious debut novel, we meet one of the most memorably mismatched pairs in the annals of literature. The good-looking one is one-hundred-year-old ex-seminarian and "roads" scholar Travis O'Hearn. The green one is Catch, a demon with a nasty habit of eating most of the people he meets. Behind the fake Tudor facade of Pine Cove, California, Catch sees a four-star buffet. Travis, on the other hand, thinks he sees a way of ridding himself of his toothy traveling companion. The winos, neo-pagans, and deadbeat Lotharios of Pine Cove, meanwhile, have other ideas. And none of them is quite prepared when all hell breaks loose.
Subjects: Humor (Fiction), Fiction, Demonology, Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, humorous, general, Fiction, general
