How long does it take to read Truckers?
Truckers by Terry Pratchett takes about 4 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Bromeliad Trilogy
Next: Diggers
About 4 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 250 pages, about 68,750 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 31 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Under the floorboards of the Store is a world of four-inch-tall nomes that humans never see. It is commonly known among these nomes that Arnold Bros. created the Store for them to live in, and he declared: "Everything Under One Roof." Therefore there can be no such thing as Outside. It just makes sense. That is, until the day a group of nomes arrives on a truck, claiming to be from Outside, talking about Day and Night and Snow and other crazy legends. And they soon uncover devastating news: The Store is about to be demolished. It's up to Masklin, one of the Outside nomes, to devise a daring escape plan that will forever change the nomes' vision of the world...
Subjects: Department stores, fiction, Fairies, fiction, Science fiction, Humorous stories, Children's fiction, Department stores
