How long does it take to read Wings?
Wings by Terry Pratchett takes about 3 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 3 of Bromeliad Trilogy
Previous: Diggers
About 3 hours 57 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1990. 215 pages, about 59,125 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 34 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Somewhere out there, the ship is waiting to take them home . . . Here's what Masklin has to do: Find Grandson Richard Arnold (a human!). Get from England to Florida (possibly steal jet plane for this purpose, as that can't be harder than stealing the truck). Find a way to the "launch" of a "communications satellite" (whatever those are). Then get the Thing into the sky so that it can call the Ship to take the nomes back to where they came from. It's an impossible plan. But he doesn't know that, so he tries to do it anyway. Because everyone back at the quarry is depending on him -- and because the future of nomekind may be at stake...
Subjects: Science fiction, Computers, Fiction, Department stores, fiction, Children's fiction, English Science fiction
