It takes the average reader 8 hours to read Boomsticks by Simon Fairbanks
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Boomsticks is the second short story collection by author Simon Fairbanks. Discover fourteen new stories where the fantastic, the horrifying and the bizarre cross over into everyday life. A bounty hunter pursues a fugitive robot through Japan's largest fish market, a man has a hellish appointment with his optician, Death debates mortality with Guy Fawkes, a boy prolongs the festive season by camping out in the city's largest Christmas tree, and a traumatised soldier returns from a routine tax collection shouting 'Nuns! Nuns! Nuns!' Boomsticks also features a new novella set within the world of Simon's fantasy novel The Sheriff, in which four children find a magical boomstick of their own.
Boomsticks by Simon Fairbanks is 480 pages long, and a total of 120,000 words.
This makes it 162% the length of the average book. It also has 147% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 55 minutes to read Boomsticks aloud.
Boomsticks is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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