About Ed by Robert Glück
Published 2023
How hard is About Ed to read?
About Ed scores 64 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 58 out of 100
- Plain words used at high pressure.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Short sentences arranged in fragments.
- Abstraction: 68 out of 100
- Grief and desire treated as one abstraction.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Light on event, dense in thought.
- Narrative indirection: 68 out of 100
- A narrator assembling a dead lover from journals not his own.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The journals and the illness carry sustained weight.
- Ironic distance: 52 out of 100
- Distance between the record and the remembering.
- Resolution withholding: 75 out of 100
- The mourning is not completed.
- Structural complexity: 72 out of 100
- Fragments, journals and essay interleaved.
How About Ed is regarded
About Ed holds a literary regard score of 43 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.