How long does it take to read Skippy Dies?
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray takes about 12 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2010. 664 pages, about 182,600 words. Written for young adults.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. But when Skippy falls for Lori, the Frisbee-playing Siren from the girls' school next door, suddenly all kinds of people take an interest - including Carl, part-time drug-dealer and official school psychopath.While his teachers battle over modernisation, and Ruprecht attempts to open a portal into a parallel universe, Skippy, in the name of love, is heading for a showdown - in the form of a fatal doughnut-eating race that only one person will survive. This unlikely tragedy will explode Seabrook's century-old complacency and bring all kinds of secrets into the light, until teachers and pupils alike discover that the fragile lines dividing past from present, love from betrayal - and even life from death - have become almost impossible to read . . .
Subjects: Fiction, Private schools, Teenage boys, Death, Roommates, College students
