As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann
Published 2001 · 152,625 words · about 12 hours at an average pace
How hard is As Meat Loves Salt to read?
As Meat Loves Salt scores 58 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
- Seventeenth-century diction, sustained.
- Sentence structure: 60 out of 100
- Long period sentences.
- Abstraction: 52 out of 100
- Concrete civil war with a theological argument.
- Information density: 55 out of 100
- Dense period detail.
- Narrative indirection: 78 out of 100
- A narrator who commits atrocities and reports them as justified.
- Symbolic density: 55 out of 100
- The salt and the biblical frame carry weight.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Total distance between Jacob's self-account and his acts.
- Resolution withholding: 62 out of 100
- No absolution is offered.
- Structural complexity: 45 out of 100
- A linear confession.
How As Meat Loves Salt is regarded
As Meat Loves Salt holds a literary regard score of 36 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.