How long does it take to read The Tale of the Body Thief?
The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice takes about 9 hours 18 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 4 of The Vampire Chronicles
Previous: The Queen of the Damned Next: Memnoch the Devil
About 9 hours 18 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 507 pages, about 139,425 words.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 30 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 18 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 49 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Returning to Lestat as the main character, the fourth in the Vampire Chronicles series finds Lestat impulsive and careless in the pursuit of what he wants: a serial killer in Southern Florida. Lestat is surrounded by mortals in this tale, an a new worthy counterpoint character to Lestat is introduced, Raglan James. James is a vampire hunter, and a formidable adversary for Lestat. James offers Lestat the opportunity to switch bodies temporarily with a young mortal. Against Louis' advice, Lestat accepts and discovers he hates everything about being human. He also finds that James has disappeared with Lestat's powerful vampire body. Louis refuses to help Lestat become a vampire again, and he turns to another mortal to help him trick James into switching souls, and giving up Lestat's body. Centering on the themes of body and soul and soul migration, The Tale of the Body Thief is a novel of action.
Subjects: Horror fiction, Horror tales, Fiction, Vampires, Depression, suicide attempts
