How long does it take to read Well-tempered Clavicle?
Well-tempered Clavicle by Piers Anthony takes about 5 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 35 of Xanth
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About 5 hours 52 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 320 pages, about 88,000 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 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 40 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When a walking skeleton named Picka Bones happens upon a trio of melodic pets and a lovely, lovelorn princess, his dull and passionless existence is suddenly filled with danger, excitement, and the temptations of the flesh. For a plague of appalling puns has been unleashed on Xanth, and only Picka's musical gifts have the power to save the enchanted realtor the dire monster who imperials it.
Subjects: Xanth (Imaginary place), Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Xanth (imaginary place), fiction
