Alone with me: A new autobiography
Published 1976 · 276 pages · 75,900 words · about 3 hours at an average pace · Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction
How hard is Alone with me: A new autobiography to read?
Alone with me: A new autobiography scores 17 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. 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: 28 out of 100
- A 1976 celebrity memoir aimed at general readers most likely uses plain, conversational English. It sits near the accessible end, closer to Beach Read than to The Great Gatsby.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Memoirs of this kind favor direct first-person sentences of moderate length. Nothing in the form suggests nested or experimental syntax, so it reads like contemporary accessible prose.
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- An autobiography of a performer's life rests on concrete events, people and places. It is personal and direct, nearer to The Diary of a Young Girl than to philosophical works.
- Information density: 28 out of 100
- A 276-page illustrated memoir of about 76,000 words gives a comfortable pace. Photographs and personal recollection keep the load light, comparable to the Diary of a Young Girl.
How Alone with me: A new autobiography is regarded
Alone with me: A new autobiography holds a literary regard score of 17 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.