How long does it take to read The Dragonbone Chair?
The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams takes about 14 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
Next: The Dragonbone Chair, part 1
About 14 hours 21 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1988. 783 pages, about 215,325 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 23 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In the peaceful land of Osten Ard, the good king is dying-and a long-dreaded evil is about to be unleashed. Only Simon, a lowly castle scullion apprenticed to a secret order dedicated to halting the coming darkness, can solve the dangerous riddle that offers salvation to the land.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, American Fantasy fiction, Magic, Fiction, fantasy, general, Castles
