How long does it take to read Pyramids?
Pyramids by Terry Pratchett takes about 6 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 7 of Discworld
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About 6 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 366 pages, about 100,650 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 45 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.First, there's the monumental task of building a suitable resting place for Dad -- a pyramid to end all pyramids. Then there are the myriad administrative duties, such as dealing with mad priests, sacred crocodiles, and marching mummies. And to top it all off, the adolescent pharaoh discovers deceit, betrayal -- not to mention aheadstrong handmaiden -- at the heart of his realm.
Subjects: American Fantasy fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Fantasy, Fiction, Pyramids, Pyramids -- Fiction.
