How long does it take to read The Truth?
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs
The Truth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs takes about 7 hours 11 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 25 of Discworld
Previous: Nanny Ogg's Cookbook Next: Thief of Time
About 7 hours 11 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1995. 392 pages, about 107,800 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 11 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 30 minutes |
The page count is the median across 37 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record.An ethical joulnalist, de Worde has a proclivity for investigating stories -- a nasty habit that soon creates powerful enemies eager to stop his presses. And what better way than to start the Inquirer, a titillating (well, what else would it be?) tabloid that conveniently interchanges what's real for what sells.But de Worde's got an inside line on the hot story concerning Ankh-Morpork's leading patrician Lord Vetinari. The facts say Vetinari is guilty. But as William de Worde learns, facts don't always tell the whole story. There's that pesky little thing called the truth ...
Subjects: Fiction, Discworld (Imaginary place), Journalists, Newspaper publishing, Fantasy, Investigative reporting
