All Down Darkness Wide by Seán Hewitt
Published 2022
How hard is All Down Darkness Wide to read?
All Down Darkness Wide scores 49 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. 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
- A poet's vocabulary, image-heavy.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Long lyrical sentences.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Grief and faith handled largely in figure.
- Information density: 52 out of 100
- Light on event.
How All Down Darkness Wide is regarded
All Down Darkness Wide holds a literary regard score of 40 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.