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How long does it take to read The Little Sisters of Eluria?

Stephen King

The Little Sisters of Eluria by Stephen King takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Part of The Dark Tower

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About 5 hours 43 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2008. 312 pages, about 85,800 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 32 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 35 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

“The Little Sisters of Eluria” is a prequel to the first volume of the Dark Tower saga. Roland’s beloved city of Gilead has fallen to the Good Man’s forces, and the Gunslingers have been slaughtered at the Battle of Jericho Hill. Roland is now a lone wanderer, searching for the trail of the elusive sorcerer known as the Man in Black. On a hot day during the season of Full Earth, Roland enters a deserted town in the Desatoya Mountains. The town is called Eluria, and it is empty except for a lame dog, a drowned boy, and the eerie sound of tinkling silver bells. As Roland searches for the town’s missing inhabitants, he is attacked by the slow mutants known as the Green Folk. Our unconscious hero is rescued by an itinerant band of female healers who call themselves the Little Sisters of Eluria. But Roland’s rescuers are not what they seem, and our gunslinger must fight their narcotic potions to stay awake, and alive.

Subjects: fantasy, Dark Tower Series, Mid-Earth, gunslinger

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