How Long to Read The Dragon House

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dragon House?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 49 minutes to read The Dragon House by Darrell Schweitzer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

IMAGINE... It is not hard to imagine that you are a thirteen-year-old (almost fourteen) and you don’t quite feel like you belong in your own family, with a somewhat goofy father who does magic tricks and disappears for long periods of time and might be a secret agent, not to mention a mother who might be a white witch, and a sister is actually normal but doesn't look the slightest bit like you. Then it gets worse when your family suddenly moves into a massive pile of a house deep in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and that house seems to be alive. It is more than a house. It is also a centuries-old, sleeping dragon that settled into the shape of a house as it slept. But now it is waking up, and you find you have a strange affinity to it. You, and no one else, can slide through the walls, swim in the bloodstream of the Dragon and share its consciousness. You acquire a mysterious teacher and a robotic companion from the planet Zarconax, and if life isn’t getting strange enough already, something goes wrong and Ghastly Horrors and other malevolent monstrosities attack, well before you, or your parents, or even the house itself is prepared to do anything about it. Imagine that an all-encompassing darkness threatens everyone you ever cared about. Darrell Schweitzer’s fourth novel might be considered a book for younger readers, or for readers who remember what it was like to be young. It is perhaps most comparable to the spooky narratives of John Bellairs. It is the sort of story, filled with striking imagery and bizarre incidents, a mixture of whimsy and genuine fright. The author’s other novels include The White Isle, The Shattered Goddess, and The Mask of the Sorcerer. He has published hundreds of short stories. His fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times and once for the Shirley Jackson Award. He is an expert on H.P. Lovecraft and a former editor of the legendary Weird Tales magazine. “This is the house I should have grown up in! Schweitzer’s fantasy is cleanly written, original, and great fun to read.” -- Michael Swanwick, author of The Iron Dragon’s Daughter. “Schweitzer is a story-teller, by whose smoky fire one may sit spell-bound.” -- Tanith Lee, author of The Birthgrave, Tales from the Flat Earth, the Blood Opera sequence, etc.

How long is The Dragon House?

The Dragon House by Darrell Schweitzer is 166 pages long, and a total of 42,496 words.

This makes it 56% the length of the average book. It also has 52% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Dragon House Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 52 minutes to read The Dragon House aloud.

What Reading Level is The Dragon House?

The Dragon House is suitable for students ages 10 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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