How long does it take to read The Black Company?
The Black Company by Glen Cook takes about 5 hours 51 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of The Black Company
Next: Books of the North
About 5 hours 51 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1984. 319 pages, about 87,725 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 45 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 51 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Some feel the Lady, newly risen from centuries in thrall, stands between humankind and evil. Some feel she is evil itself. The hard-bitten men of the Black Company take their pay and do what they must, burying their doubts with their dead. Until the prophesy: The White Rose has been reborn, somewhere, to embody good once more. There must be a way for the Black Company to find her... So begins one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age—Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company.
Subjects: dark fantasy, high fantasy
