How long does it take to read The Crystal Shard?
The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore takes about 6 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Legend of Drizzt
Previous: Sojourn Next: Streams of Silver
About 6 hours 18 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1988. 344 pages, about 94,600 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Isolated in the barren stretches of Icewind Dale the villages of Ten-Towns come under attack by a tribe of barbarians. In the midst of battle a young barbarian named Wulfgar ends up owing five years of his life to a grizzled dwarf. With the help of Drizzt, a renegade dark elf, the dwarf strives to mold the barbarian into a warrior with both brawn and brains. Meanwhile, there is no peace for the people of Ten-Towns. The fractioned tribes of barbarians continue to pose a threat, and Wulfgar may be the only person who can avert a deadly battle. But an even more dire menace appears when a weak-willed apprentice mage stumbles upon a magical crystal shard. The evil shard directs the hapless mage onto a course of destruction that all of Icewind Dale may be powerless to stop. from the paperback
Subjects: Fiction, Dungeons & Dragons Novel, Epic, Elves, goblins, Fantasy
