Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman
Published 2022 · 66,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Acts of Service to read?
Acts of Service scores 54 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: 50 out of 100
- Plain, frank vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 52 out of 100
- Clear, controlled sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete encounters analysed at length.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light on event.
- Narrative indirection: 62 out of 100
- A narrator theorising her own desire unreliably.
- Symbolic density: 50 out of 100
- Restrained.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Distance between her analysis and her wanting.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- No conclusion is reached.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- Linear.
How Acts of Service is regarded
Acts of Service holds a literary regard score of 32 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.